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General Health

The salubrity of the climate; the purity of the atmosphere, and of the water, which is usually obtained from copious living spring; the coolness and short duration of the summer, and the dryness of the air during winter, all conspire to render Wisconsin one of the most healthy portions of the United States. The wet meadows, marshes, and swamps, are constantly supplied with pure water from springs; as they are and, not exposed during summer to a burning heat, they do not send forth those noxious and deleterious qualities so much dreaded in more southern & less favored latitudes. Many of our most flourishing towns and settlements are in the immediate vicinity of large swamps and partially overflown meadows, yet no injurious effects upon the general health are produced by them.

It has mostly been found, in making new settlements in the western wilderness, that as the forests are cleared away and the surface thereby exposed to the direct influence

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