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Places especially amenable to the influence of malaria are found to be the beds of streams, s, and situations exposed to land and covered from s. But the most malarious of all localities are those where the sea has retired from the coast, and left in the place of shallow water a block of flat marshy land interposed between itself and a mountainous background. Such conditions are found to exist at , where it is said no European can sleep without contracting a fever; at , the seaport of , and , the seaport of , whose reputation is, and deservedly, much worse even that of Ephesus.
— GEORGE ROLLESTON