This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 edition. Excerpt: ...is not immediately endangered by a pressure less than half of that which he supports at the surface of the earth--at altitudes where water boils at 66-66 Centigrade, and under an atmospheric pressure equivalent to but half of that which obtains at the level of the sea. Those who refuse to man the faculty of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 edition. Excerpt: ...is not immediately endangered by a pressure less than half of that which he supports at the surface of the earth--at altitudes where water boils at 66-66 Centigrade, and under an atmospheric pressure equivalent to but half of that which obtains at the level of the sea. Those who refuse to man the faculty of living and of perpetuating his species under all latitudes, affirm the multiple formation of mankind, insist on the differences of races, and on the fatal results which ensue on translating man from one climate to another. Three hundred Germans sent to Cayenne in 1765 were reduced in less than three months to three individuals, of whom only one had escaped disease. Seven hundred Frenchmen, deported to a district of Mexico by M. Laisne de Ville-LeVesque, lost in two years five hundred and thirty of their number by death. According to Lind, the new-comers in the Antilles, even when taking all proper precautions, succumb in the proportion of one-fifth every year. Dr. Twining, who has practiced a long time in India, assures us that the influence of the climate is such that in the peninsula of the Ganges the third generation of pure, unmixed Europeans does not exist. This remark applies both to the English and the Portuguese. Negroes resist a little better, but nevertheless perish very rapidly. It is the same in Ceylon. From 1730 to 1752 more than a million of colonists perished in Batavia. The English army loses in that country, and in time of peace, l-2 of 100 officers, and 1-7 of 100 soldiers. In the Indies the same troops experience a mortality threefold greater, according to a mean of three years, established by M. Edmondre. In the English Antilles, the calculations of MM. Marshall and Tulloch fix the proportion of deaths among the troops at 1...
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