assumed the predominant type, and spread death and dismay. From the tenth of September to the termination of the fever in November, 113 died, (four not of fever;) making the number of our inhabitants, who probably died of the malignant fever, 115. From July first to December first, the total number of deaths, including those who died out of town, and those who died by casualties, was 137. The number of boatmen, sailors, and workmen discharged from the public works, and transient persons, who died at Mobile, during the latter period named, is supposed, from the best information that can be obtained, to have equalled that of the inhabitants, giving a total of 274. But to give an adequate idea of “the extent of the sickness and mortality,” it seems necessary to notice the population of the town at different periods of its prevalence; and here we must necessarily resort to conjectural estimates. In the month of July, the resident population of the town is estimated at 1,300 souls, and on the tenth September, 800, which were, in a few days after the known prevalence of yellow fever, reduced to 500, and it is to be remarked that a considerable portion of these were in the suburbs of the town, where the fever did not prevail. But in a proportional view of the mortality to the population, exposed to the disease, the number of our citizens who died of other diseases antecedent to the prevalence of the fever, boatmen, sailors, and other transient persons are to be deducted, which would shew the loss of our inhabitants by the recent fever to be 115: and affords a proof of its dreadful malignity. It was observed that the suburbs of the town, at no greater distance than one mile from the river, were as healthy, during the prevalence of the fever, as more distant parts of the country; and it is not known that the disease was communicated, in any instance, to persons out of the town, by the removal and attendance of the sick. Hence we infer that the disease is only communicable in the atmosphere where it originated; and even there, some pre-disposing causes appear to have been necessarily existing, as a number of persons frequently in rooms with the sick, the dying and the dead, in circumstances of the greatest exposure, never took the fever. Some remarks upon the general state of the country around, in regard to sickness or health, being intimately connected with this subject, as influenced by general and common causes, may not be deemed improper. At New-Orleans, Baton-Rouge, Natchez, and perhaps, generally upon the Mississippi, as high as the latter place, the same species of fever seems to have prevailed with great mortality. Natchez and New-Orleans, it is understood, have suffered beyond any former examples; and in fact, almost all our cities upon the sea coast, from Maine to Louisiana, appear to have suffered in a greater or less degree from the same species of fever; though they were favoured by a long established and well regulated police.