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XII. An Account of the Plague , at Aleppo : 
In a Letter to the Rev. Charles Lyttelton, 
LL . D. Dean of Exeter, now Lord Eifhop 
of Carlifle, and F. R. S. from the Reverend 
Mr. Thomas Dawes, Chaplain to the 
FaElo?y at Aleppo. 
Sir, Aleppo, October the 26th, 1762. 
Read Feb. 24, rj*1HE unexpected continuance of the 
I763 ' A plague in this city during the whole 
pad: winter having prevented the Englifh fhips, that 
brought me your favour of October 16th 1761, from 
receiving any thing on board from hence, I have been 
obliged thus long to defer paying my refpedfsto you, 
and rendering my grateful acknowledgments for - 
your generous concern and good withes for my./ 
fafety. 
Tho’ I find by experience, that accounts given 1 
in news papers of occurrences in this dilfant quarter 
of the Globe feldom deferve much credit, yet I can- 
not contradict the report you mention of the plague’s 
raging herein the funimer of 1761. You probably 
will have had it confirmed long fince, and alfo have 
heard of the accumulated diftreffes we have lately 
been labouring under : but as the particulars may not 
have reached you, I will venture to communicate them, 
tho’ it is a fubjedt neither pleafing to me to dwell on, 
nor can be very agreeable to you to read. Would to 
God ! I could even now allure you they are at an end. 
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