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for they had found as many sick in the low marshy places, as in more airy saline 

 places: and if many Negroes were infected in the Grande Terre, where they 

 drink the foul waters of ponds and lakes, they saw an equal number ill in places 

 where they had fresh rivers and running waters; but they might prove proper 

 causes for unlocking, and disposing persons to receive the disease. l6. They 

 believed, and were persuaded, that the origin of this disease among the Negroes 

 came from Guinea, for almost all the Negroes from that country told them, they 

 came from thence with these reddish spots, the first and certain signs of the dis- 

 temper begun. 17. As to the infected whites and mulattoes of Guadaloupe, 

 they were informed, that the disease was not known among the whites, till about 

 25 or 30 years before, when, out of charity, they received a miserable object 

 from the island of St. Christopher's, whose name was Clement; who, about the 

 year 1694, fled to this island. It was the family of the Josselins, called the 

 Chaloupers, that protected him ; which family, as also that of the Poulins, they 

 found infected by communication with this sick man, as old Poulin declared to 

 them. It is thought that others were infected by communication with the Negro 

 women, especially in the beginning, when the disease is much concealed, and at 

 a time when they did not mistrust one another; which is very probable, since 

 they saw many mulatto children, born of female Negroes, infected and leprous. 

 18. However this be, this distemper had had its progress; and in this visitation, 

 which they made, they examined 256 suspected persons: that is, 89 whites, 47, 

 free mulattoes, and 120 Negroes; among whom they found 22 whites, 6 mu- 

 lattoes, and 97 Negroes, infected with the leprosy, amounting to 125. There 

 were 6 whites and 5 Negroes more, whom they could not visit, for reasons set 

 forth in the verbal process. The remaining persons, which were 131, appeared 

 to them very sound: not that they could answer for the consequences, especially 

 with respect to the children, who were the offspring of leprous persons, whether 

 declared such by them, or dead before the visitation, suspected of infection. 



This was the opinion, declaration, and result of the visitation made by them, 

 the physicians and surgeon appointed for that purpose. At Basseterre, the day 

 above-mentioned. 



Peyssonel. Lemoine. Moulon. 



A second visitation was made in October 1748. 



Fill. On the late Discoveries of jintiquities at Herculaneum. By Camilla 

 Paderni, Keeper of the Herculaneum. Museum, and F. R. S. Dated Naples, 

 Dec. 16, 1756. p. 49. 



Two volumes of the ancient papyrus have been unrolled. One treats of rhe- 

 toric, the other on music; and both are written by the same author, Philodemus. 

 II Signor Canonico Mazzocchi, a very learned gentleman of this city, is now 



