The Enniskillen men were seasoned to the climate.

The Dutch were accustomed to live in a country which, as a wit of that age said, draws fifty feet of water.

They kept their huts dry and clean; and they had experienced and careful officers who did not suffer them to omit any precaution.

But the peasants of Yorkshire and Derbyshire had neither constitutions prepared to resist the pernicious influence, nor skill to protect themselves against it.

The bad provisions furnished by the Commissariat aggravated the maladies generated by the air.