This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 Excerpt: ...about the year of Christ 640.--Woodville. (2) First introduced into Greenland in 1733, and almost depopulated the country.--Ibid. (3) In 1520, says Mr. Woodville, when the small-pox visited NewSpain.it proved fatal to one-half of the people in the provinces to which the infection extended; bning carried thither by a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 Excerpt: ...about the year of Christ 640.--Woodville. (2) First introduced into Greenland in 1733, and almost depopulated the country.--Ibid. (3) In 1520, says Mr. Woodville, when the small-pox visited NewSpain.it proved fatal to one-half of the people in the provinces to which the infection extended; bning carried thither by a negro slave, who attended Narvaez in his expedition against Cortes. He adds, about fifty years after the discovery of Peru, the small-pox was carried over from Europe to America by way of CarthaKena, when it overran the continent of the New World, and destroyed upwards of 100,000 Indians in the single province of Quito.--HUt. of Inoculation. Then, when debilitated, faint, and poor, How sweet to hear a footstep at her door! To see a neighbour watch life's silent sand, To hear the sigh, and feel the helping hand Soon woe o'erspread the interdicted ground, And consternation seized the hamlets round: Uprose the pest--its widow'd victim died, And foul contagion spread on every side; The helping neighbour, for her kind regard, Bore home that dreadful tribute of reward, Home, where six children, yielding to its power, Gave hope and patience a most trying hour; One at her breast still drew the living stream, And sense of danger never marr'd his dream; Yet all exclaim'd, and with a pitying eye, "Whoe'er survives the shock, that child will die!" But vain the fiat, --Heaven restored them all, And destin'd one of riper years to fall. Midnight beheld the close of all his pain, His grave was closed when midnight came again; No bell was heard to toll, no funeral pray'r, No kindred bow'd, no wife, no children there; Its horrid nature could inspire a dread That cut the bonds of custom like a thread. The humble church-tower higher seem'd to show, Illumin...
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