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 “dì, hμnogā—dèv hμnog," 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.

"be truly defined a discase arising from certain animalcules, probably "invisible, which burrow and form their nidus in the human body.”—Travels in Asia Minor, chap. 83.