There was little alteration in the general state of the sick during the voyage to America, and indeed we found no diminution of the West-India heat, which at this season is at the greatest height, until we came to the 33° of N. latitude. The only material alteration in point of health was in the Alcide and Torbay, which had arrived from England with a few men ill of fevers; but in the course of this voyage these two ships became as unhealthy as any that ever came under my observation. There was a greater number of sick on board of them than all the fleet besides, and it increased to such a degree, that upon their arrival at New York, which was in the middle of September, after a passage of three weeks, near one half of their men were unfit for duty. In the Alcide it was a fever that raged; in the Torbay it was a dysentery; and the unusual degree of sickness and mortality which appears in the Table for the month of September, was owing to the very sickly state of these two ships. TABLE III. Shewing the Number of Fevers and Fluxes on board on the First of each Month, and the Number sent to the Hospital in the Course of the Month. [Key: B On board. H Sent to the Hospital. +---------------+-------------------+-------------------+-------------------+ | | MAY, 1780. | JUNE. | JULY. | | SHIPS’ NAMES, +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+ | AND | Fever. | Flux. | Fever. | Flux. | Fever. | Flux. | | Date of their +----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+ | Arrival. | B | H | B | H | B | H | B | H | B | H | B | H | +---------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+ | Sandwich, | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 16th March | 6 | 0 | 16 | 19 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 16 | 3 | +---------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+ | Terrible, | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 16th March | 0 | 0 | 40 | 20 | 0 | 3 | 86 | 75 | 3 | 25 | 60 | 24 | +---------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+ | Triumph, | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 7th May | | 0 | | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 17 | +---------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+ | Russell, | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 18th June | | | | | | | | | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +---------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+ | Shrewsbury, | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 26th June | | | | | | | | | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +---------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+