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Excerpt from The Timber, Agricultural and Industrial Resources of the Timber, Agricultural and Industrial Resources of Vancouver Island, British Columbia: A Promising Field for Farming, Fruit Growing, Dairying, Lumbering, Mining and Fishing in the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway Belt Unlike many mild climates, that of Vancouver Island is healthful, there is no malaria, no endemic diseases, and the health department takes every possible precaution to prevent epidemics. Children thrive wonderfully well in this favored land, and the aged and feeble find new life in its balmy, invigorating air. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.