Note 2 — WALTHAM FOREST.
Reading edition
Dr. Armstrong, the physician-poet, has fulminated an alarming denunciation against poor Essex; witness the startling allegory of the ague in his “Art of Preserving Health.” The countenances of the natives are fair commentaries, not to establish, but to controvert his doctrine. That there are some marshy districts within the two hundred and twenty-five miles of its circumference is indisputable, but it is hard to threaten a whole country with the unacceptable visits of “the meagre fiend Quartana,” who is represented by the Doctor as domesticated there.