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remained concealed. It must have been discovered, and demon- 

 strated to tlie satisfaction of the world, by the ancient physicians; 

 and could not now have been a subject of controversy among 

 their successors. 11. Because no person has at any period of 

 history been known to arrive in England, from the Levant, la- 

 bouring under pestilence. 12. Because no person employed in 

 purifving goods in the lazarettos of England or of Malta, has ever 

 been known to be affected with pestilence, which could not have 

 happened if contagion had existed in the goods; and because 

 such goods could not be uniformly exempt from contagion in 

 particular countries, if that were the cause of plague. If in other 

 countries, expurgators of goods in lazarettos have been known to 

 be affected, it must have been from other causes. 13. Because, 

 after three hundred thousand deaths from plague have happened 

 in one season, in Grand Cairo, two hundred thousand in Constan- 

 tinople, and one hundred thousand in Smyrna, as we are told has 

 repeatedly occurred in those places, and the clothes of the dead 

 have been worn by their surviving relatives, or sold in the bazaars, 

 and worn by the purchasers, the disease, instead of spreading 

 wider and wider, as would inevitably have happened, if contagion 

 were its cause, (since in that case it could not fail to be carried 

 in the clothes,) has, on the contrary, regularly declined and ceased 

 at the usual periods. 14. Because, in those countries in which 

 the plague is supposed to be introduced by means of contagion, 

 conveyed by travellers or goods, as Egypt, Asia Minor and Syria, 

 it never occurs epidemically, but at particular seasons ; although 

 in the other seasons, travellers and goods from places in which 

 the disease prevails, continue equally to arrive. And because in 

 other countries, as Persia, which maintain a similar uninterrupted 

 intercourse with places liable to frequent attacks of plague, that 

 disease never occurs. 



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Sir, The Hague, April 3, 1 S 1 9. 



In compliance with Lord Castlereagh's desire, communicated 

 to me in vour letter of the 16th ult. I have made inquiry respect- 

 ing the quarantine regulations established in the United Nether- 

 lands, and find that tlie following is the system now practised in 

 this regard : 



No vessels whatever of any nation arriving in these ports are 

 subjected to quarantine, excepting such alone as come from the 

 coast of Barbary. These latter are immediately visited, and care- 

 fullv inspected by a medical person, who reports thereon to the 

 Marine Department at the Hague, which department determines, 

 from the nature of the report, to what extent quarantine shall be 



enforced 



