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Some account of the Cape of Good Hope

houses quite free from its effects however close they are shut up  the Sand will find an entrance & in a short time cover every kind of furniture with a thick dust

Inconvenient as this certainly is it however does not seem to have any effect beyond the present moment  tho the inhabitants must in the course of a summer inspire an immence quantity of this Sand  which has been thought by some Physicians to be productive of Ulcers in the Lungs &c &c  yet Consumptions are diseases scarcely known here & the healthy countenances  fresh complexions & above all the number of Children with which all ranks of people here are blessd abundantly prove that the Climate in general is very freindly to the human constitution

Diseases brought here from Europe are said to be almost immediately cur'd but those of the Indies not so easily  which latter we
 

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