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venture, that we find them "daily displaying their signal 

 of Health from the middle of the Island :" " all in high 

 spirits "Oct. 25, "indeed confined to a strict regimen, 

 but they may every day be seen walking the Island, 

 shooting wild fowl, playing at quoits, some wholly with- 

 out marks, in all stages of the disease their windows 

 daily open, exposing themselves to the open air in aH 

 weathers," down to Oct. 29 ; and on Nov. 5, duly 

 commemorating the " happy Deliverance of the English 

 Nation from the Gun Powder Plot" with tar barrels 

 brought from Marblehead, with which they "displayed a 

 large fire from the Middle of the Island, and the Hospi- 

 tal Illuminated, making a most beautiful appearance." 

 Rockets were ordered from Boston, and were "played off 

 by a number of gentlemen who spent the Evening at the 

 Assembly room," and all passed "very jovially for them 

 and for their friends and acquaintances under Inoculation." 

 Dec. 4, in firing a salute, it does not appear for what occa- 

 sion, Capt. Lowell of Newburyport, a patient only twelve 

 days under inoculation, blew off both his arms and shattered 

 his upper jaw and nose, yet he was discharged in thirty- 

 seven days, recovered so far as was possible from these 

 and other frightful injuries, with the sight of one eye 

 restored, a striking testimony to the curative skill and 

 good management which prevailed there. Clergymen 

 were not lacking among the patients to conduct the usual 

 services of Sunday. 



Thus successfully did this important undertaking seem 

 to be initiated, and the first, second and third classes, 

 each of a hundred or more members, had already passed 

 the ordeal, the Salem Hospital at Castle Hill having in 

 the meantime been erected and opened. Applications 

 crowded the class books too fast for admission, and the 

 patients, returning from treatment, left the island with 



