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The place might have been taken over and over again, had any of our people had the courage to return after their disaster. "My old enemy the ague-fever set in again upon me as I lay here by the river-side. 'Tis a wonder how I ever survived.
He came to my bedside, where I lay in the ague-fever, and said with great animation, amongst other things, "I have had such a blessed sleep, and feel so refreshed! What kindness in God to provide such remedies for suffering man!" At midday his dear wife came to me crying, "Mr. Johnston has fallen asleep, so deep that I cannot awake him."
I saw in my travels through these counties a few persons who were ill of ague-fever, as it is here called. The prevalence of this disease is not to be attributed to a general unhealthiness of the climate, but can at all times be referred to localities. I next entered Crawford county, and crossed the Wyandot prairie, about seven miles in length, to Upper Sandusky.
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