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order, efcaped the infection, A woman upwards 
of an hundred years of age was attacked with the 
plague, and recovered: her two grandchildren of io 
and 1 6 received the infection from her, and were 
both carried oft by it. 
While the plague was making terrible ravage in the 
ifland of Cyprus, in the fpring of 1760, a woman 
remarkably fanguine and corpulent, after lofing her 
hufband and two children, who died of the plague in 
her arms, made it her daily employment from a prin- 
ciple of charity to attend all her fick neighbours, that 
flood in need of her affidance, and yet efcaped the 
infection. Alfo a Greek lad made it his bufinefs 
for many months to wait on the fick, to wafh, drefs 
and bury the dead, and yet he remained unhurt. 
In that contagion ten men were faid to die to one 
woman ; but the perfons, to whom it was almofl 
univerfally fatal, were youths of both fexes. Many 
places were left fo bare of inhabitants, as not to have 
enough left, to gather in the fruits of the earth : it 
ceafed entirely in July 60, and has not appeared in 
the ifland fince. 
The plague feems this year to have been in a man- 
ner general over a great part of the Ottoman empire. 
We have advice of the havoc it has made at Conflanti- 
nople, Smyrna, Salonicha, Brufa, Adena, Antioch, 
Antab, Killis, Ourfah, Diarbekir, Moufol, and 
many other large towns and villages. Scanderoon, 
for the firfl time I believe this century, has fuffered 
confiderably : the other Frank fettlements on the fea- 
coaft of Syria have been exempted, excepting a few 
accidents at Tripoli, which drove the Englifh con- 
