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15 of February (by means of a veilel, which con- 
vey’d it to Candia, as was faid) pretty hot, fo that 
all the houfes in Frank-ftreet were fhut up in Febru- 
ary ; and it continued till the latter end of November. 
Another vulgar error is, that the heat kills the 
plague at Smyrna, and the cold at Conftantinople j 
which is very true with regard to Conftantinople, 
but very falfe with regard to Smyrna : for proof look 
back to the year 1735, when the vigour of the ma- 
lady fhew’d itfelf mod; in the months of June and 
July, tho’ fo very hot/ that fome people were faid to 
die of the heat in going from the town to the villages 
near it : fo that it is very certain the heat does not 
kill the plague at Smyrna, as is generally thought and 
faid. 
I am fomewhat furprifed to f nd there fhould be a 
general quarantine order’d in Holland, where there 
has been none fince I have been in Turkyj and 
more particularly, f nee there is not the lead appear- 
ance, or even fufpicion, of licknefs at any other fcale 
in T urky, excepting that of Conftantinople j where, 
by the by, there does not appear a Dutch fhip once 
in three years. 
Dr. Mackenzie to Dr. Mead, F. R. S. 
S I R, 
RcadMarch 19,/" |“^ HIS is the only fummer lince I 
* 752 ' X have been in Turky that I can 
fay we have been without any plague. The air was 
very temperate, no heavy rains, high winds atN. E. 
from which point our Etefian winds blow, commonly 
called 
