... L:-i ri ?? ing on the filthy nastiness of this place, I s 'ts- unpaved, undrained, and enduring an Ir 26, epidemic of small-pox. The town must have II ans been continually fall of suffering men, since t y's for two months alone of 1654 the cost of the ...

... Middleton, 1Wavy Commissioner at the Dock- yard, says: 11 Portsmouth is at present free from the ii plague, tlhough fever and small-pox abound. Ele dreads the appearance of the fatal dis-1 temper amonlgst ' so crowded and miserably poor a Population. 1 ;t ...

... monumental bad luck. At twenty-one the un- fortuntate man married and had two children. ly Ilis wife and children (lied of smallpox and were I buried. 1'oteaux then went to Pittsburg aunl z b)ecasme a labourer in a coal mine. Osie day the roof caved in ...