Heport of tlie National Vaccine EstaUishment. 915, 



the ravages of barbarians, were built into the wall of a gun- 

 powder magazine near it, and the finest block was inserted 

 upside downwards. It required ibe w liole of lord Elgiii's 

 influence at the Porte, very great sacrifices, and much per- 

 severance, to remove them ; but he at length succeeded. 

 They represent the Athenians in close coml)at wiih the 

 Persians, and the sculptor has marked the different dresses 

 and armour of the various forces serving under the great 

 king. The long garments and z<ines of the Persians had 

 induced former travellers, from the hasty and imperfect 

 view they had of them, to suppose the subject was the battle 

 between Theseus and the Amazons, who invaded Attica, 

 under the command of Antiope; but the Persian tiaras, 

 the Phrygian bonnets, and many other particulars, prove 

 them to be mistaken. The spirit with which the groupes 

 of combatants are pourtrayed, is wonderful ; — one remarks, 

 in particular, the contest of four warriors to rescue the dead 

 body of one of their comrades, which is expressed with un- 

 common animation. These bas-reliefs, and some of the 

 most valuable sculpture, especially the representation of a 

 marriage, taken from the parapet of the modern fortifica- 

 tion, were embarked in the Mentor, a vessel belongino to 

 lord Elgin, which was unfortunately wrecked off the island 

 of Cerigo : but Mr. Hamilton, who was at the time on 

 board, and most providentially saved, immediately directed 

 his whole energies to discover some means of rescuing so. 

 valuable a cargo; and, in the course of several months de- 

 voted to that endeavour, he succeeded in procuring some 

 very expert divers from the islands of Synie and Calymno, 

 near Rhodes; who were able, .with in)mense labour and 

 perseverance, to extricate a few of the cases from the hold 

 of the ship, while she lay in twelve fathoms water. It was 

 impossible to recover the remainder, before the storms of 

 two winters had effectually destroyed the tunbers of the 

 vessel. 



[To be continued.] 



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XL. Report of the National Vaccine Establishment. 



[Continued from p. 158.] 



I. Case of the Rev. Joshua Rowley. 



JL HE rev. Joshua Rowley, brother to sir W. Rowley, when 



an infant, was inoculated by the late Mr. Adair, 177O; the 



scar left by the inoculation is perfectly visible ; his mother, 



O 4 ' the 



