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this number, and affirms, that there died in Oxford 300 persons, and in other 

 places 200 and odd, from the 6th of July to the 12th of August ; after which 

 died not any of that sickness ; for one of them infected not another : and this 

 historian agrees with Camden, that not any one woman or child died thereof. 

 Dr. George Ethryg, a physician, who practised at that time at Oxford,* in the 

 2d book of his Hypomnemata quaedam in aliquot Libros Pauli ^ginetae, seu 

 Observationes Medicamentorum, quae hac aetate in usu sunt, printed at London 

 in 1588, in 8vo, mentions, that on the first night of the appearance of the dis- 

 ease about 600 fell sick of it; and that the next night 100 more were seized in 

 the villages near Oxford. Lord Bacon, in his Natural History, evidently refers 

 to this, and one or two more instances of the same kind in the following passage, 

 Century x. N*^ 914. " The most pernicious infection next the plague is the 

 smell of the gaol, where prisoners have been long and close and nastily kept ; 

 whereof we have had in our time experience twice or thrice, when both the 

 judges that sat upon the gaol, and numbers of those that attended the business, 

 or were present, sickened upon it and died. Therefore it were good wisdom, 

 that in such cases the gaol were aired before they be brought forth." We have 

 likewise an account in Mr. Anthony Wood,-j~ that at the quarter-session at Cam- 

 bridge, in Lent, in the year 1522, and the 13th of the reign of Henry the 8th, 

 the justices, gentlemen, and bailiffs, with most of the persons present, were 

 seized with a disease, which proved mortal to a considerable number of them ; 

 those who escaped having been very dangerously sick. With regard to the un- 

 happy instance of the same kind of contagion, which happened at the session in* 

 the Old Bailey, in May 1750, see Dr. Pringle's excellent work, intitled. Observa- 

 tions on the Diseases of the Army in Camp and in Garrison. J 



XCFI. A Description of the Plan of P eking ^ the Capital of China ; sent to 

 the Royal Society by Father Gaubil, ^ Societate Jesu. Translated from thA 

 French, p. 704. 



King che. The Court. — In this plan are the inclosures of walls, which 

 form as it were three cities. The 1st is the imperial palace, or imperial city. 

 It is called Kong tching or Tse kin. The 2d inclosure is Hoang tching. The 

 3d inclosure is King tching, or Royal City. Maps and descriptions of this being 

 to be met with in other books ; any further account of it is omitted as unneces- 

 sary here. . 



• Wood Hist, et Antiqu. Universit. Oxon. lib. i. p. 295, and Athen, Oxon. vol. i. col. 237- 

 + Hist, et Antiquit, Universit. Oxon ubi supra. % Page 290, 2d edit. 



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