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€0rding to cuftom, it~has a large. fquare, fubdivifion took place: thé profeffor 
which is at once the beft reidence and Francis Paftor proceeding from the port: 
the market-place, “9 = - of Sifal, to that of Villa Hermofa, in the 
Lublin again is another-town of fome’ province of Tobafca; for the purpofe of 
note, of which the population is proba- propagating vaccination im the diftriét of 
Bly about 5 or 6,000. Like Warfaw, it Ciudad Real of Chiapa, and on to: Goa- 
has no fquare, forming another exception temala, making a circuit of 400 leagues, 
to the general plan; it confifts merely through along and rough road, compti 
of a long thoroughfare ftreet, with a few Ing Oaxaca; while the reft’of the éxpe- 
others irregularty difpofed. The build= dition, which arrived without accident at 
ings are but indifferent, compared to Veracruz, traverfed not only the vice 
thofe in towns of fimilar extent ia more royalty of New Spaim; but ‘allo the in- 
civilized countries. | | terior- provinces; whence it was td re- 
7 — *--. tum to Mexico, whieh was the point of 
For the Monthly Magazine, © re-union. a oe 
This precious prefervative ‘againft the 
ravages of ‘the imall-pox has already 
been extended through. the whole of 
North America, to the coafts of Sonota 
ING the VACCINE TXOCULATION injag 284 Sinaloa; and’ even -to the” Gentiles 
all parts of his DoMINIONS. and Neophites of Hhigh-Pimeria, In 
és ] le G indy each capital a council has been infti- 
upplemento a la Gazetta de Madrid, tuted, compofed of the principal autho- 
- del Martes 14 de Octubre de 1806. ) rities, and the moft zealous members of 
N Sunday, the 7th of September the faculty, charged with the preferva~ 
‘laft, Dr. Francis Xavier Balmis, tion of this» invaluable fpecific, as a 
furgeon-extraordinary to the king, had facred depofit, for which théy are ac- 
the honour of kifling his Majefty’s hand, countable to the king and to pofterity. 
on occafion of his return froma voyage ‘This being accomplilhed, it was the 
round the world, executed with the fole’ next care of the director to carry this 
object of carrying to all the poffeflions part of the expedition from America te 
of the crown of Spain, fituated beyond Afia, crowned with the mot. brillant 
the feas, and to thofe of feveral other fuccefs, and with it the comfort of hu- 
natiotis, the ineftimable gift of vaccine mamnity. Some dithculties having-been® 
inoculation. His Majetty has inquired, furmounted, he embarked-in the port of 
with the livelieft interctt, into all that Acapulco for the Philippine Ifands; that 
Taterially related to the expedition, and being the point at which, if attainable, 
léarned, with the utmoft fatisfaction, that 1t was originally intended that the under~ 
its refult has exceeded the mott fanguine taking fhould be terminated. : 
expectations that were entertained at the | The bounty of Divine Providence havs— 
time of the enterprize. —- ing vouchfafed to fecond the great and: 
This undertaking had been committed pious defiyns of the king, Balinis hap- 
to the diligence of feveral members of pily performed the voyage in little more 
the faculty, and fubordinate perfons, than two months: carrying with him, 
carrying with them twenty-two children, from New Spain, twenty-lix children, 
who had never undergone the fmall-pox, deftined to be vaccinated im fuccetlion, 
feleéted for the prefervation of the pre- as before; and as many of them were 
cious fluid, by tranfimitting it fuccefiively infants, they were committed to the 
from one to another, during the courfe care of the matron of the foundling-hof 
of the voyage. The expedition ‘fet fail pital at La Corunna, who, in this, as: 
from Corunna, under the direction of well as the former voyages, conducted 
Balmis, on the S0th November, 1803. soerfelf in a manner to merit approbation. 
It made the firft ftoppage at the Canary The expedition having arrived at the 
Hflands, the fecond at Porto-Rice, and Philippines, and propagated the fpecific 
the third at the Caracas. On leaving in the iflands fubject to his Catholic 
that province, by the port of La Guayra, Majefty, Balmis, having concluded his 
it was divided into two branches: one philantbropic conuniffion, concerted with 
part failing to South America, under the the captain-general the means of ex- 
charge of the fubdireétor Don Francis tending the beneficence of the king, and 
Salvani; the other, with the direétor the glory of his augutt name, to the re+ 
Baluis on board, fteering for the Hava- moteft confines of Afia. 
nah, and thence for Yucatane There a In pomt of fact, the cow-pox has 
been 
@vunious pprairs relative to a RECENT - 
_ VOYAGE round the worRLD, performed 
under the auspices of the KING of 
SPAIN, for the PURPOSE of INTRODUC-~ 
