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an opportunity of being better informed by the Arabs, 
who come hither with the Eaftern caravans j from 
w r hofe accounts it would appear, that inoculation has 
from time immemorial been a pradice among the 
different Arab tribes with which they were conver- 
fant ; comprehending, befides thofe in the numerous 
encampments on the banks of the Euphrates, and the 
Tigris below Bagdat, other tribes in the vicinity of 
Baffora, and in the defart. 
For thefe feveral years paft, very few haves have 
been brought from Georgia. From what I could 
colled among thofe already here, who remember 
any thing of their own country, inoculation was well 
known there : I have feen feveral old Georgian wo- 
men, who had been inoculated, when children, in 
their fathers houfes. 
In Armenia, the Turkoman tribes, as well as the 
Armenian Chriflians, have pradifed inoculation lince 
the memory of man ; but, like the Arabs, are able 
to give no account of its firff introdudion among 
them. 
To what extent inoculation reaches in the Gourdeen 
mountains, I do not know with any certainty : it is 
pradifed by the Gourdeens in the Mountains ofBylan, 
and Kittis; and, I have reafon to think, extends 
much further. 
At Damafcus, and all along the coaft of Syria 
and Palefline, inoculation has been long knowm. In 
the Caftravan mountains it is adopted by the Drufi, 
as well as the Chriftians. 
Whether the Arabs of the defart, to the South of 
Damafcus, are acquainted with this manner of com- 
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