ing and trembling. It is indescribable what I felt while I was engaged in this work; so that I spent upwards of two hours about it. I then lay down for a little repose, and when I awaked my mind was so full of peace and comfort that I could most heartily thank the Lord for his powerful aid, which he had granted to me an unworthy creature."
192. The Plague.
Antes has some remarks upon the plague which are well worthy the consideration of philosophical physicians. It always ceases in Egypt when the weather becomes very hot; and extreme heat eradicates it more certainly at Cairo, than cold abates it at Constantinople. "They are always (he says) pretty sure when the plague will cease, for it seldom remains after the 24th of June; this has given occasion to the following superstitious notions, not among the Turks only, but particularly among the Cophtic Chris-
