The other wharves, five in number, also deserve a more particular notice. Three of them appear to be built upon the plan of the former; and with like materials, two are partly built upon piers, giving a more wholesome circulation to the water. One was built during the spring and summer, but chiefly destroyed by the storm of July, the others from one to four years since, each of them, affording a mass of decaying vegetable matter, from 200 to 400 feet in length, 25 to 30 in breadth, and 3 to 10 in depth, covered with a thin layer of earth, or mud. Such a quantity of noxious materials collected together in a state of decay, must necessarily produce miasmata, and mortal disease. Water street is also observed to be filled up with the same kind of materials, in many places to the depth of from 4 to 6 feet, and computed together might afford a mass of such matter, several hundred feet in length, and fifty in breadth, thinly covered with earth. The lots adjoining this street, on one side, are found to have been chiefly filled up with rotten logs, green pine saplings, and pine tops, with a thin layer of earth, and might comprise more than an acre of ground, thus filled from one to two feet; and on the water side, the docks are observed to have been much clogged up with timber, drift logs, and old boats, which during the low summer tides, and north wind, collected together in the docks, great quantities of sea-weed, and other filthy matter, in a state of decay, particularly under the stores standing over the water. The prevalent north wind, and low tide, during the months of September and October, left the docks, and a large extent of marsh mud about them, exposed to the heat of the sun, and the water, variously obstructed about the docks and wharves, became itself stagnant and offensive. The committee also observe that many old boats, or barges, damaged during the storm on the 28th July, were suffered to remain filled with water, as well as the schooners Sally and Piper, at the wharves south of the fort, during the months of August, September, and October, even to the time the committee visited them. The water in these boats and vessels, we scarcely need to add, was in a most putrid and offensive state. Several lots upon Water street were suffered to remain covered with stagnant water, filled up with old rotten logs, old casks, bushes, and, in short, seem to have been receptacles for refuse and offal substances of every kind. The badly constructed foundations of the stores and buildings near the river, retaining beneath them much unwholesome matter, or stagnant water, affecting the inhabitants with their deleterious damps and effluvia, must have proved a fertile source of disease, under the influence of the late season.