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the Cholera had continued its ravages from Caramania to India; and in the winter of the following year it attacked the town of Tiberias. Towards the end of 1830, this destructive pestilence appeared in the Russo-Asiatic provinces of Sehirvan and Bakou, whence it spread to Tiflis, the eapital of Georgia, and, as it is supposed, to Astrachan, July 20, 1830, by means of a brig from Bakou, of the erew of which eight had died from Cholera on the passage. After visiting many Tartar villages in the neighbourhood, it proceeded through the Cossack stations on the highway to Moscow; and on the 25th of July, began in Krasnojar, twenty miles from Astrachan: it finally extended down to the Cossack eordon. It is computed that in the eity of Astrachan 4043 persons perished, besides 21,163 in the provinces! From thence it commenced a north-west course along the Volga, and reached Tsaritzin on the 4th of August. At Saratov (or Saratoff), where it appeared immediately after, 2367 persons died in three weeks. A clcrgyman of that eity, in going one day to bury four eorpses, met sixty funerals!
After visiting several other places, it reached Samaria, 200 miles N. E. from Saratov, August 27, where, in seven days, 47 people died. At the same time, it proceeded northward to Penza, and in fourteen days its victims amounted to 800. At Nischnei- Novgorod, 968 were eut off; at Kasan 1174. At length it reached Moseow, where, from the middle of September, when it first appeared, to the 17th of November, 6531 persons had been affected, of whom 3508 died! The patient either died in a few hours, or lingered for many hours, although able to eonverse; some were so violently attaeked, as to be like persons brought to the ground by a violent blow, or by a stroke of lightning.
In June 1831, the Cholera was discovered at St. Petersburg, and in about a month, out of 5367 that had been attacked, upwards of 2500 died. Warsaw, the capital of Poland, experieneed a similar afflietion, and in less than a month, 2530 cases were reported. Among the victims was Field Marshal Diebitseh, who died 10th June 1831. To prevent the entranee of this grievous malady into Prussia, a sanitary cordon was established from the Baltic Sea to near Cracow: along this line no travellers were permitted to enter Prussia, except at
