[6] And yet what security is afforded by a present abatement of the visitation? In Glasgow, cholera was regarded as departing, and all but departed. The number of cases has since risen, for some time, to above 300 at once, and the deaths not seldom to between one and two hundred a day, in a population small compared with that of London.
[7] Chap. xxiv. ver. 5.
[8] Rev. ii. 2.
[9] Impossible—within three days of Aleppo must be meant.
[10] We have since discovered, by a survey of the Tigris, that in its present state it will be only navigable to Mosul during seven months in the year, from ledges of rock that pass across the river.
[11] See Record, Oct. 1, 1829.
[12] It has since been so high as 118 in the shade, and 158 in the sun.
[13] A Capidji Bashi is a messenger of the Porte, to collect money, or bear especial messages of any sort.
[14] All this was wrong; they were treacherously robbed and murdered, Mr. Jas. Taylor, Mr. Aspinal, a merchant of Bombay, and Mr. Bawater, formerly, I think, in the marines.
[15] They have 3,362 congregations, whereas the most numerous body besides has but 1,946. See Miss. Register.