Jean Monteith (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Jean MonteithHere malaria made its stronghold, intrenching itself, with ague for advanced guard and typhoid for a grim reserve. Here the people took to their beds in earnest, or, at best, crawled feebly about their business, too racked and tormented to have strength, or faith, to pray for the frost which would be their bodily salvation.The cause of all this trouble was a very great improvement set on foot by an enterprising farmer from Vermont, who had come down to the South, as to a land of promise, with a little money and the hope of making more. He bought a goodly tract of land for a price that made him wonder, and sent North for his family with intent to stay, and grow a vine and fig-tree.The farm was a mile above the village and more adjacent to the mountains, and on it was a great, green pond, the delight of frogs and newts and village lads and lassies, and the cause of half the sickness that visited that region. It was a pretty, pestilential spot, much over-grown, and with no means of ¿owing outward, for time and neglect had caused the ditch, which had been its outlet, to become choked with weeds and rubbish.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.