a similar inference may be drawn as to the
parts unnoticed. According to the information
that we have obtained, the northern
districts have not suffered less than the rest,
and their present deplorable condition may
be put on a parallel with that of Western
Skaptefield.
§ XXXIII.
Effects upon the That the eruption had like-
human frame. wjse a powerful effect on the
human frame is certain, and is the less to be
wondered at, as the unwholesome and pestilential
air operating together with the noxious
water and food, and with the want and distress
occasioned by the destruction of the
cattle, must naturally be productive of sickness
and distempers. Diseases of the most
inveterate kinds, in the form of scurvy,
broke out in sundry places, and those even
far distant from the fire: as, for instance,
in the districts of Guldbringue, Borgefiord,
arid Myhre, especially in the first. The
district of West Skaptefield was, however,
the chief seat of this distemper; and in
only six parishes there, no less than one
hundred and fifty persons were carried off