134 Miscellaneous Facts and Observations. 



More precise information, concerning this inte- 

 resting question, will be gladly received by the Editor. 



MS. Medical Journal, 

 for 1789. 



10. An intelligent physician, and who has inocu- 

 lated a great number of negroes in North-Carolina, 

 informs the Editor, that he has remarked, that very 

 generally the eruption makes its appearance, in this 

 variety of men, forty-eight hours earlier than it does 

 in the whites, and that the fever is proportionably 

 early. To this rule, he thinks, there is not more 

 than one exception in fifteen cases. He is also per- 

 suaded, that the negroes have the small-pox milder 

 than whites, which he ascribes to the greater perspi- 

 ration of the former. 



MS. Medical Journal, 

 for 1794. 



11. The following passage from Ligon's History of 

 Barbadoes, seems not to have been generally noticed 

 by the writers on the malignant fevers of the West- 

 Indies. It is printed, in this place, because the ori- 

 ginal work is extremely rare in the United-States. 



Ligon sailed from the Downs, in June, 1647, and 

 arrived in Barbadoes the same year. We " put (he 

 says) into Carlisle Bay ; which is the best in the 





