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swer for my dates, but of the fact I am 
certain) proposed the burying of the 
animal with all its litter: his plan was 
adopted in England, France, and Flan- 
ders, and actually stopt the spread of 
the contagion. But in Denmark the 
physicians, who were consulted by the 
government on the occasion, pronounc- 
ed the disease to be a genuine small-pox, 
and proposed the inoculation of the 
calves and cattle hitherto uninfected. 
‘The measure was adopted, and attended 
with compleat success. Whether or no 
I am deceived in the inference, the facts 
at all events are curious.” 
Mr, Muirhead resided for some time 
at Lausanne, and did not leave it with- 
out regret. Lyons was his first station. 
An academician of this city, had kept a 
register of the births and deaths for 
twenty-four years ; and we shall extract 
such of his results, as will interest polt- 
tical and physical speculators. 
«« 29, The males exceed the females by 4 
twenty-third. 3. The months of August 
and September are most fatal to infants and 
children, December and January to those of 
ten years and upwards, 4. “More boys 
than girls die from birth till ten years, and 
more girls than boys from ten to twenty. 
5. Four-ninths die before the twentieth year. 
6. Females, wno have attained the age of 
sixty, generally live longer than men who 
have attained the same age ; but more men 
than women have completed their century. 
7. Longevity prevails most in the cloister. 
8. The crisis of climacteric years is unsup+ 
ported by fact. 9. The proportion of births 
is as one to seventy-two.” 
A good anecdote is related of the 
canons of Lyons. 
«© When the abbé de Villeroi, who had 
made many unsuccessful attempts to become 
one of their number, was appointed by the 
king to the archbishopric, they waited upon 
him with the usual tribute of respectful 
compliments. While he received them with 
courtesy, he could not help remarking, that 
the stone which the builders refused was 
become the head of the corner. Their 
spokesman instantly replied, This is the 
Lord’s doing, it is marvellous in our 
eyes. 
Of the literary natives of Lyons Mr. 
Muirhead notices the abbé Terrasson, 
with deserved respect. His Sethos, in- 
deed, is an admirable romance, It 
would be rendering a useful service to 
the public, to edit a translation of this 
work, with notes and references to clas- 
sical authorities, Terrasson speculated 
in the schemes of Law, * tasted of the.r 
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transient benefits, and when the bubble 
burst, again sunk into retirement with- 
outa sigh. Me woild, said he, tiré d’af= 
faire. Je revivrai de peuy—cela mest plus 
commode. They who knew him knew he 
was sincere ; for his character was marked 
by a love of tranquillity, and much ap- 
parent stoicism and simplicity.” It 
was from his romance that Warburton 
borrowed his hypothesis concerning the 
Eleusinian mysteries. ; 
Avignon was his next resting-place 
It. was not without pleasure, as well as 
surprise, that we perused his account of 
the Jews there. 
«© Well, said a sensible and affectionate 
friend, you have to pass some months at 
Avignon, which shelters the French rene- 
gado, and fosters an undue proportion of 
monks and clergy. I studied there myself, 
and am no stranger to the character of the 
inhabitants---Beware of forming intimaciés, 
and recollect that the Catholics are there the 
Jews. The point of this parting exhorta-: 
tion recurred with singular zest when, upon 
a Friday evening, a canon of the cathedral 
politely offered to conduct me to the syna~ 
gogue. ‘The latter is small, but neat, and 
minues the distribution of the temple of 
Jerusalem. The chanting of the Hebrew 
service is peculiarly grating, but the come 
posed air of the worshippers betokens the 
sincerity of devotion. The women occupy 
an under apartment, and have the service 
read to them inthe Proveneal dialect, as few 
of them understand Hebrew. When I 
took the liberty of, asking one of them why 
so few of her sex attended, the synagosuedly 
she replied that most of them were occupie 
with Emil concerns, and could say their 
prayers at home. Nor ‘would I willingly 
suppress the following trait. Upon obsery- 
ing an elderly man, to whom those in the 
orch paid particular attention, I presumed 
Ire was a rabbi—but was soon informed that 
he was a simple honest trader, who had 
lately paid the amount of a bond of surety, 
which, owing to some flaw in the deed he 
might have evaded with impunity. He is 
nearly reduced to poverty, but has acquired 
additional respect, and has preserved his 
peace of mind. His brethren here, to the 
number of five or six hundred, are allowed 
to live cooped up in a separate and ill-aired 
quarter of the town, in consideration of re- 
peated douceuts, and upon condition that 
the men wear orange or yellow hats, and 
the women flat caps, stuffed at the sides. 
Yet it is generally allowed that they live 
uictly, and that they are more exemplary 
ee their neighbours in the discharge of 
domestic duties. Their modest inoffensive 
deportment must sensibly affect every feel- 
ing mind, and induce it to sympathize with 
an unfortunate portion of our species so long 
branded with epithets of the vilest abuse, so 
ee es awed 
