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the disorder, than heating medicines applied to the same purpose?" I smiled upon reading this hint, for I remembered a dream which might easily have tempted a Mahommedan physician to try the experiment. It stands thus in a diary or rather noctuary of dreams, which would have been exceedingly curious if the writer had not been as liable to forget them as Nebuchadnezzar, and without the advantage of having a Daniel to remember them for him. "Dec. 15, 1806. I was reading in my dream of a Doctor Bocardo who had discovered a mode of curing fevers, by putting the patients into what he called one of his Burning Hells. It was a place heated to the greatest degree that life could bear, and the extreme heat decomposed the matter of the disease."

The Friars de Propagandâ Fide at Cairo, appoint two of their number to visit the sick and to administer extreme unction to those of their persuasion who

are dying; and these visitors so seldom die of the plague that they make a miracle of it. "The only precaution they take, (says Antes, p. 47,), is to drink a great quantity of brandy, as much, and often more than they well can bear without dishonouring their profession. A Venetian Doctor, long resident at Cairo, never performed quarantine, and even visited people who were sick of the plague, but never caught it himself. His antidote was likewise to take so much brandy, that he was seldom free from its effects. Perhaps the increase of perspiration occasioned by the use of the liquor might be the cause. It seems that brandy supplies in this case, what a great degree of heat would naturally do. A timorous person, who is in constant fear and apprehension, will be much more liable to have it. It is well known that fear acts the contrary way, and will prevent or obstruct perspiration."

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There was a report that the Sun stood still at the battle of Wittemburg. The King of France asked Alva, who commanded the victorious army, whether it were true his answer was, Sir, I had too much to do upon earth, to have any leisure for looking at heaven.

Vieyra. Serm. T. 5. P. 135.

194. Anglesea Beef.

Anglesea Beef was more famous formerly than Welsh mutton is at present. "The flesh (says Harrison) of such cattle as is bred there, whereof we have store yearly brought unto Cole fair in Essex, is most delicate by reason of their excellent pasture, and SO much was it esteemed by the Romans in time past, that Columella did not only commend and prefer them before those of Liguria, but the Emperors themselves, being near hand also, caused their provision to be made for nete out of Anglesea to feed upon at

their own tables, as the most excellent

beef."

Holinshed, Vol. 1. P. 64.

195. Amphibious Fish.

Among the number of odd things in New Holland, the amphibious fish is not the least remarkable. "We found (says Captain Cook) a small fish of a singular kind; it was about the size of a minnow, and had two very strong breast fils; we found it in places that were quite dry, where we supposed it might have been left by the tide, but it did not seem to have become languid by the want of water; for upon our approach it leaped away, by the help of the breast fins, as nimbly as a frog; neither indeed did it seem to prefer water to land; for when we found it in the water, it frequently leaped out and pursued its way upon dry ground; we also observed that when it was in places where small stones were standing upon the surface of the water at a little distance from each other, it chose

rather to leap from stone to stone, than to pass through the water; and we saw several of them pass entirely over puddles in this manner, till they came to dry ground and then leap away."

Cooks first Voyage, B. 3. Ch. 2. This probably explains a fact mentioned by Capt. Percival in his account of Ceylon. "One circumstance (says that author) has often struck me with astonishment, that in every pond or muddy pool casually supplied with rain water, or even only recently formed, and entirely unconnected with any other water, swarms of fishes are continually found. The only explanation (he adds) which it appears possible to give of this phenomenon is, that the spawn is by some unknown process carried up with the rain. into the sky and then let down with it upon the earth in a condition immediately to become alive." P. 318.

These fish may be of the same kind as those which Captain Cook observed in

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