i LETTERS AND PAPERS that one village contained six hundred inhabitants ; that only four had escaped. Others, which had contained four and five hundred, had left seven or eight to lament the calamities they had suffered.

Whenever any families retired to the country, to avoid the infection ; on returning to town, when apparently all infection had disappeared, they were generally attaqkecj, and died. The destruction of the human species in the province of Upper andLowerSuse was much greater than elsewhere. The capital city of this province (Tarodant) lost, when the infection was at its acme, about eight hundred each day ; the city of Marocco lost one thousand each day ; the cities of Old and New Fas from twelve to fifteen hundred each day j insomuch, that, in these large towns, the mortality was such, that the living had not time to bury the dead : they were therefore thrown altogether into large holes, which were covered over when full of dead bodies.

Young and healthy robust persons were generally attacked first ; then women and children ; lastly, thin, sickly, and old people. After the plague had totalli/ subsided, we saw men, who had been common labourers, enjoying their thousands, and keeping horses, without knowing how to ride them. Provisions became extremely cheap, for theflocks and herds had been left in the fields, and had nobody now to own them. Day-labour increased enormously. Never was equality in the human species more evident than at this time.