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The provifions, mere refufe put up by 
government-contractors with the view of 
iaving expence, were of the wortt kind ; 
and tie water, which was alfo of bad qua- 
lity, from the unexpected length of the 
voyage, became extremely fcanty before 
the arrivalofthe fhip. In order to receive 
fo great a number of paffengers on board 
of this fhip, temporary cabins were built 
on the quarter-deck, which were filled 
with 80 perfons. ‘Three hundred were 
crowded into the fpace between decks. 
It will excite no furprile that a veflel thus 
crowded became fickly foon after failing 
from Sligo. Typhous fever and dyfen- 
tery foon began to prevail, and deftroyed 
the lives of a large proportion of the paf- 
fengers. ‘In addition to the wretchednefs 
of being confined in fuch numbers in fo - 
{mall a fpace, thefe unhappy emigrants 
fuffered all the evils which their habits of 
uncleanlinefs could produce. ‘Their 
bodies and clothes, covered and faturated 
with filth, exhaled poifon all around them. 
Partly: from the want of ftrength and af- 
fitance among the fick, and partly from 
the want of a fenfe of decency, the {pace 
between decks, occupied by nearly 300 
perfons, became the receptacle of all excre- 
mental matters, infomuch that they iffued in 
ftreams from the fcuppers. The filth on 
the upper deck was nearly over the fhoes. 
The fides of the fhip were daubed and in- 
crufted with excrements; and even the 
“ropes for the fupport of fuch as wifhed to 
go on board were unfitto be handled. 
‘The ftench was intolerably offenfive. In 
fuch condition arrived this unfortunate 
veffel at the place affigned for quarantine 
in the port of New York. Ninety per- 
fons had died on the paflage; 180 were 
fick. Scarcely a healthy countenance was 
to be feen on board of the fhip ; very few 
had efcaped difeafe; and many had ful- 
fered from three to four relapfes. About 
40 were taken iil after their arrival. As 
foon as poffible after their arrival, the fick 
were brought afhore ; firipped of their 
filthy and pettilential clothes ; their bodies 
thoroughly waflied and {coured with foap 
and water ; and then wrapped up inclein 
blankets, and carried into the wars ap- 
pointed for their ieception, in the Marine 
Hofpital.. The permanent buildings of 
the eftablifhment were infufficient to re- 
ceive fo zreat a number ; tents and other 
temporary accommodations were pro- 
vided for the remainder. Separation, ven- 
tilation and cleanlinefs, as foon as they 
could be brought into aStion, accomplifhed 
every thing that could be expected. And _ 
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only 26 have died fince their arrival at thig 
port. 
An American lexicographer, 
name of ALEXANDER, has lately publith- 
ed a Columbian Dictionary of the Enelith 
language, in which he propofed tozinfert 
‘© many new words peculiar to the United 
States.” We were at, frft alarmed for 
the integrity of our language; but a {mile 
was excited when we found that all the 
“words by which it is yet improved on the 
other fide of the Atlantic amount. onl 
toten. They are Lengthy, Antifederalifm, 
Bootees, Caucas,- Rateability, Sophomores 
Lintar, Yankey, Accordingto, and Compo- 
Juyi, words, which, if popular, we ven-— 
ture to prognofticate will alfo continue to 
be peculiar to their inventors! 
The cow-pox has becn difcovered to he 
indigenous among the cows of Lombardy, 
and thofe in the vicinity of Paris; and 
-we now learn from the Medical Repofite- 
ry of New York, that it has alfo been 
found among the cows in various parts 
of the United States, particularly in the 
ftate of Connecticut, where the matter has 
been ufed with fuccefs. . ~ 
‘There were lately difcovered in a_pri- 
vate houfe in Wirtemberg, in Saxony, fe- 
veral fheets of mufic, written, according 
to the opinion of the beft judges, in Lu 
THER’s own hand. That extraordinary 
man, it is faid, was not only an amateur of 
mufic, and held weekly concerts at his 
hoafe, but was alfo himfelf a very excel- 
lent compofer and performer. - 
brated Handel acknowledges that he had 
fiudied the compofitions of Luther, and 
had reaped finguiar benefit from them. © 
There was lately prefented to the Firft 
Conful a Map of France, engraved and co- 
loured on marble, in fuch a way as to be 
incapable of being defaced. This map, 
which is depofited at Malmaifon, is the 
invention of M. Jean MONTAINVILIE, 
of Neufchateau, in the department Des fo- 
réts. . He executes in the fame martner 
on marble ail forts of maps, plans,and 
charts, with fu much art, and fo hithly 
finifhed, as to vie with defign and piint-. 
ing. “Thefe works refift the injuy of 
‘time, and may be expofed in gardensand 
other public places. ; 
‘Citizen FauvEL, who for fome ‘ears 
lived at Athens, where he was empoyed 
in taking defigns of the remaining nonu- 
menis of .ancient Greece, has latly re- 
turned to Paris. After having lawuith- 
ed about two years in the prifons oi Con- 
ftantinople, into which he had«been trown 
on the commencement of the ruptue be- 
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