professional men, I shall leave to them all further discussion on the subject; being persuaded that much may be done by the scientifick professor in ascertaining the phenomena of the plague, and discovering a corrective for the most dangerous and baneful disorder that falls to the lot of humanity.

Colonel Rourke, the writer of the foregoing observations, from his long residence in the Levant, where he lived for the last thirty years of his life, is well entitled to attention. He was a very singular man, of large property, and a Protestant. He had long left Ireland, his native land, and had served in the Russian armies, where he had acquired the order of St. Anne. He had a residence in most of the islands of the Archipelago, in some a room at a friend's house, and in some a house of his own; but he lived generally in his boat, of which he had furnished the interior with every luxury both of Europe and Asia, and in which he always made it a fixed rule to sail before the wind, for as he was equally at home in all the islands, it was a matter of perfect indifference to him to whcih of them he steered his course. He had a good library on board, and was a very clever wellinformed man. He died at Cyprus, in 1814, and left to two maiden sisters in England all his property, his curiosities, and the best collection of medals of the Greek islands. that ever was formed, I was told, by a single individual.

I copied his observations at Zante, in 1814, from an

original paper in his own writing, which he had left with a friend of mine.

The plague appears in all shapes. An old Turk in Salonica walked about lately (I write in 1814) much afflicted with what had all the symptoms of an ague for three weeks, and when asked what ailed him, he feebly answered “di, nuwoga dir nuogw," I can't-I can't, (a common expression in the Levant to denote illness) At the end of that time he died of declared plague.

Mr. Pyburn (an English merchant of Salonica) tells me that once, in 1812, on examining a bubo on a woman's throat with a microscope, he found it to contain millions of worms of different colours, so small as to be invisible to the naked eye. 1814.

M. Petridi (inspector of the Greek school at Zante) had the plague when a child at Pera, and was constantly nursed by his uncle, who never caught it till 1812, when he died of it. Mr. P. lost six brothers by it.

*This agrees with Chandler's account. "The plague might, perhaps, "be truly defined a disease arising from certain animalcules, probably “invisible, which burrow and form their nidus in the human body.”—Travels in Asia Minor, chap. 83.