An Essay on the Climate and Fevers of the South-Western, Southern Atlantic and Gulf States

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Excerpt from An Essay on the Climate and Fevers of the South-Western, Southern Atlantic and Gulf States: Embracing a Brief Exposition and Defence of the Existence and Essential Nature of Malaria, Accompanied and Illustrated With a Medico-Topographical and Meteorological Account of the Dead Sea RegionThe principal rivers, with their tributaries, washing the east ern section, commencing on the cast, are the Cape Fear, Pedee Santee, Savannah, Ogeechee, Altamaha, St. Mary's, St. John's, Suwanee, Apalachicola, Alabama, Mobile, Tombigbee, Pearl and Yazoo, all of which, excepting the St. Mary's, St. John's and Suwanee, have their sources either within the Appalachian range or some one of its numerous outliers, and discharge their waters into the Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, or the Mississippi River. The St. Mary's and Suwanee, rivers of Georgia and Florida, have a common source in the Okefenokee swamp, the St. John's in an immense swamp in Orange County, Florida.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.