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has likewife on board a flone, with an infcription, 
and three figures, viz. a mother, and two fons, of 
whom flie takes leave at a funeral repaft. The figures 
of the two fons are fomewhat damag’d j but the 
mother, with a palla covering her head and body, 
the chair without a back, or rather a flool with a 
cufhion upon the feat, and the three -footed table, at 
which they fit, are very complete, and well prefer ved, 
as likewife the infcription. 
We have had lafl fummer the mofl violent plague, 
- that has been in this country (as it is thought) for the 
twenty years, which I have lived in it. Some fay, that 
i 50,000 fouls have died of it in five months 3 but it 
is impoflible to determine the number, as the Turks 
keep no regiflers of fuch as die of this or any other 
malady. 
The winter began -lafl year very early in Novem- 
ber. About the beginning of January the fmall-pox 
was very frequent, but not mortal ; being for the mofl 
part of the diflindl kind. It continued to the latter 
end of March 175 1, when malignant fevers began, 
and continued till the middle of May, when four 
fhips arrived from Cairo with the plague on board. 
They no fooner landed their goods and men, than it 
began to fpread among the inhabitants, and got to a 
great pitch by the 10 of June, and extended more 
and more daily, till the middle of Augufl ; when, 
after a deluge of rain, thunder, and lightning, it was 
much abated j but it recover’d itsflrength again about 
the beginning of September, which it retain’d till the 
middle of O&ober, when, after fome fnow, and cold 
weather, it intirely ceas’d, and we are now under no 
apprehenfion from it for this winter. Tis true, fome 
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