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pie occupied in the peaceful round of civil life. 

 Moft perfons witnefs, br even read the account 

 of any one being murdered, or killed by acci- 

 dent, with fentiments of horror and diftrefs ; 

 while the detail of hundreds being flain by the 

 fword fcarcely excites a paffing regret. 



Similar feelings are evinced by the fol- 

 diers ! More of forrow and confirmation pre- 

 vailed in the garrifon, from the accidental lofs 

 of a fingle comrade, than, probably, would 

 have been exprefled, by the fame men, had 

 thoufands been killed, before them, upon the 

 field of battle ! You will be able to explain 

 how it is that death, in the one cafe, fhould 

 beget fuch terrors, while, in the other, it 

 fcarcely excites a momentary impreflion. We 

 fhudder with horror, and are loaded with 

 grief at the lofs of an individual ; yet the de- 

 finition of thoufands fcarcely robs the bofom 

 of a figh ! 



The fecond day after my arrival at Ber- 

 bifche I had the unhappy opportunity of in- 

 fpe£ting the body of a foldier who had fallen 

 a facrifice to yellow fever. The appear- 

 ances were fimilar to thofe I had witneffed 



