about four hundred
years since; but, however the dreadful epidemy originated, the
leading features of the disorder were novel, and more dreadful than
the common plague of Turkey, or that of Syria or Egypt, as the
following observations will demonstrate.

In the month of April, 1799, a plague of the most dreadful kind
manifested itself at the city of Old Fas, which soon after
communicated itself to the new city. About this time the Emperor
Muley Soliman ben Muhamed was preparing a numerous army, and was on
the eve of departure to visit his Southern dominions, and to take
possession of the province of Abda, which had not acknowledged him
as Emperor, but was, as well as the port of Saffy, in a state of
rebellion. The Emperor left Fas early in the summer, and proceeded
to Sallee, Mazagan, and Saffee; thence to Marocco and Mogodor. Now
the plague began to kindle in all the Southern provinces, first
carrying off one or two the first day, three or four the second
421 day, six or eight the third day, and increasing progressively till
it amounted to a daily mortality of two in a hundred of the whole
population; continuing _with unabated violence_, ten, fifteen,
twenty days, being of longer duration in old than in new towns;
then diminishing in a progressive proportion from one thousand
a-day, to nine hundred, to eight hundred and so continuing to
decrease till it disappeared.

When it raged at the town of Mogodor, a small village (Deabet)
situated two miles South-east of Mogodor remained uninfected,
although the communication was open between these two places. On
the thirty-fourth day after its first appearance at Mogodor, this
village received the infection, where, after committing dreadful
havock among the human species for twenty-one days carried off one
hundred persons out of one hundred and thirty-three, the population
of the village before the plague visited it. After this, none died;
but those who were infected recovered, some losing the use of a
leg, or an arm, or an eye.

Many similar circumstances might be mentioned relative to the
numerous villages scattered about the extensive province of Haha,
all which shared the like, or a worse fate. Travelling through this
province after the plague had disappeared, I saw many ruins, which
had been