 | Henry McMurtrie - Botany - 1819 - 282 pages
...so much so. If to these we add those diseases that •at times occur every where, we have the Jist complete. To affirm that Louisville is a healthy city,...country. As no better opportunity offers than the present of touching upon a subject which certainly does not add to the .credit of the place, I must... | |
 | Ben Casseday - Louisville (Ky.) - 1852 - 310 pages
...unhealthy. One of these writing soon after this date, says: "To affirm that Louisville is a healthy place would be absurd, but it is much more so than the thousand...may find the favorable alterations accomplished, and so do away with the general impression of its being the grave-yard of the Western country." As is well... | |
 | Archer Butler Hulbert - Ohio River - 1906 - 598 pages
...cases of it, but fortunately at a time of year when there existed the least danger of its spreading. To affirm that Louisville is a healthy city, would...and do away the general impression of its being the grave-yard of the western country. In 1779 a blockhouse and eighteen log cabins of Clark's men on Corn... | |
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Jist complete. To affirm that Louisville is a healthy city, would be absurd, but it is much more so than the thousand tongues of fame would make us believe, and as many of the causes which prevent it from becoming perfectly so, can be removed, a few years... 