"It was provided with an open well and sink-drain, with its deposit-box in close proximity thereto, affording facility to discharge its gases in the well as the most convenient place.

The cellar was used, as country cellars commonly are, for the storage of provisions of every kind, and the windows were never opened.

The only escape for the soil-moisture and ground-air, except that which was absorbed by the drinking-water, was through the crevices of the floors into the rooms above.

After a few months' residence in the house, the clergyman's wife died of fever.

He soon married again; and the second wife also died of fever, within a year from the time of marriage.