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dition asainst Cortez. Torribio affirms, that one half of th« 

 people ui the provinces vijilcd. with this distemper, died. 

 'J'be small-pox was not brought into Pern for several years 

 after the invasion of the Spaniards; but there too that dis- 

 temper ]5roved very fatal to the natives. — Garcia OrigeVf 

 p. 88. cited in Rf)hrfsov\s Hisf. of Jvicrica, vol. iii. p. 400. 



About (il'tr vcars after the discovery <jf Peru, the small- 

 pox was carried over from iuiropc to America, by way of 

 Cartha'i-ena, when it over- ran the continent of the new 

 world, °anti destroyed upwards of 100,000 Indians in 

 the single province of Quito. This account was found 

 t)y M.^La Condamine, Tn an anficnt MS. preserved irt 

 the cathedral of that city. This aiUhor aho observes, that 

 in the Portuoiicsc settlements bordering upon theRiver Ama- 

 zons, the siTiall-pox was nearly fatal to all the natives, /. e. 

 oriiiinal Americans. — See his 'Mam. si/r I' hioc. p. 61. 



fn 1/67, never were so many people seen to die as at 

 Kamtschatka, when a soldier introduced the small-pox for 

 the first time; 20,000 perishing from that disease, and 

 whole villatres were observed nearly desolate. — Coon's Voijagc. 



The small-pox was first introduced into the frozen regitni 

 of Greenland in 1733, when the mortality of this disease 

 was so liTcat, that it almost depopulated the v^hole country. 

 — See Craiitzs I lis tor// (if' Grniiluiid, vol. i. p. 336. 



Even so late as the year 171>3, when the small-pox was 

 conveyed to the Isle of France, in the East-Indies, by a 

 Dutch ship, live thousand four hundred persons perished 

 there by this distemper iu six weeks. — iVoadviilt', vol. i. 

 p. 28. 



The Coiulasion. 



I. Hence It appears, tliat had the small-pox seized upon a 

 person more than once during the period of life, the body 

 bei-ftg suscepiible of more than one attack, as is the case with 

 colds', fevers, acrues, &:c. either the human race would have 

 presented a frightful spectacle of corroded scars and mangled 

 deformity, orj^wliat is more probable, would have become 

 extinct, unless the inventive genius of n»an, assisted by 

 God's mercy, had found out a mode to lessen the falality and 

 deformity occasioned by so foni)idable a disease, either by 

 treatment, or some other mcaua. 



e. It is likewige evident from this statement, that all the 

 wars throughout the whole w orld (an observation worthy the 

 notice of tlu statesman) have never cut the thread of so 

 inanv lives as this inexorable devonrer of the lumian race, 

 Huw' happily, as will be seen iu the following pages, 

 3 ' chained 



