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tlie south end of Hindostan; hence it leaped to Ceylon, and from 

 Ceylon south-westerly, some thousands of miles, to the two islands 

 of France and Bourbon, near Madagascar. After traversing Hin- 

 dostan in all directions, it cut across the sea of Arabia, to Muscat, 

 in June, 1831; whence one line moved north-westerly along the 

 Persian gulf to Bassora and Bagdad, to Damascus and Aleppo, on 

 the Mediterranean. The other line, from Muscat, traveled more 

 northerly, to Shiraz, Ispahan, Teheran, in 1822, and along the 

 w^est coast of the Caspian sea up to Astrachan, where it was from 

 1823 to 1830; thence scattering through Russia all the way to 

 St. Petersburg, latitude sixty; thence to Stettin, Dantzic and 

 Hamburgh, touching nothing more south-westerly than Vienna. 

 From Hamburgh it crossed over and struck New Castle and Edin- 

 burgh, ran down to London, crossed over to Ireland. Now, while 

 westerly march of several thousand miles was going on, another 

 red streak left Delhi, ran to Lahore; thence to Cabul; tlience, by 

 a northerly line curving to the westward, it struck Orenburg, 

 September, 1829. Here this streak of cholera lightning stopped, 

 while the other one came over to Canada, in 1832. 



In its course through the region of the Ganges, as it approached 

 the large city of Moorshedabad, on that river, a vast population, 

 land low, moist, heat excessive, all dead animals left to rot in the 

 streets; many sot disant wise men cried woe! woe! to Moorshed- 

 abad, and waited to hear of havoc among her people. They 

 deceived themselves. Cholera came near it, but jumped clear 

 over it, to some beautiful high grounds north-westerly of the filthy 

 city, and slew those good people who turned up, or rather held, 

 their noses at Moorshedabad. 



After reaching Edinburgh, it made a nearly direct line for 

 London, where it struck, February 12th, 1832. Whence it ran 

 off north-west, to Glasgow, and more westerly, to Dublin. 



I had the means and leisure to read all that has been written 

 about it, have had it myself, and examined several of the most 

 extraordinary cases in my (Ninth) ward hospital, in 1832; and 

 I leave ofi' in perfect ignorance of its cause and remedy. It usually, 

 as in the vegetable world, selects individuals, or sometimes masses, 

 never the whole. 



