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years, have been hotted and mod violent during 
the feafon of the Etefian winds; dill allowing, that, 
were it not for the Etefian winds, the plague would 
be more violent in the hot months. Witnefs the 24 
of June 173 f, there being no wind, the ficknefs ra- 
vaged more than any other day, while it laded. 
I return you many thanks for diewing my remarks 
to the Royal Society. I am fenfible they have no 
other merit imaginable, beiides their being true, 
which may be a motive for fome of the bed tade 
to relidi them. 
As I hear there is a bill to be brought into parlia- 
ment to regulate quarantines, I will give my humble 
opinion of them, as they ought to be obferved in 
Great-Britain and Ireland 
1. It feems to me ufelefs to put a (hip’s company 
from the Levant in quarantine in Britain. For how 
is it poffible, that men, who have been one or two 
months at fea, tofs'd about with different winds and 
weathers, and arriving, after fuch a time, in good 
health in England, can have any infection in their 
bare bodies ? Wherefore, as foon as they arrive, thev 
diould be dripp'd naked, and have clean linen and 
cloaths put on, and then fent immediately afhore. 
This would fave to the owners of diips thefe failors 
wages and victuals during the quarantine ; and the 
failors might go to fea again, without eating the 
bread of idlenefs for fo many days. The cafe is 
different in Italy, and in the fouth of France ; to 
which countries a diip with a fair wind may per- 
form a voyage in eight days from the Levant ; during 
which time a perfon may have the plague about 
T t t 2 him. 
