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147 EXPULSION OF THE JEWS. 147 spectres, so emaciated were they, so cadaverous in chapter their aspect, and with eyes so sunken ; they differ- ed in nothing from the dead, except in the power of motion, which indeed they scarcely retained. Many fainted and expired on the mole, which be- ing completely surrounded by the sea, was the only quarter vouchsafed to the wretched emigrants. The infection bred by such a swarm of dead and dying persons was not at once perceived ; but, when the winter broke up, ulcers began to make their appearance, and the malady, which lurked for a long time in the city, broke out into the plague in the following year. " ^^ Many of the exiles passed into Turkey, and to different parts of the Levant, where their descend- ants continued to speak the Castilian language far into the following century. Others found their way to France, and even England. Part of their religious services is recited to this day in Spanish, in one or more of the London synagogues ; and the modern Jew still reverts with fond partiality to Spain, as the cherished land of his fathers, illustrat- ed by the most glorious recollections in their event- ful history. '^ 12 Senarega, apud Muratori, Re- transferred their residence. One rum Ital. Script., torn. xxiv. pp. is mentioned by Castro as a lead- 531,532. ing practitioner of medicine in 13 See a sensible notice of He- Genoa ; another, as filling the brew literature in Spain, in the posts of astronomer and chronicler. Retrospective Review, vol. iii. p. under king Emanuel of Portugal. 209. — Mariana, Hist, de Espana, Many of them pubhshed works in torn. ii. lib. 26, cap. 1. — Zurita, various departments of science, Anales, torn. v. fol. 9. which were translated into the Not a few of the learned exiles Spanish and other European Ian- attained to eminence in those guages. Biblioteca Espaiiola, torn, countries of Europe where they i. pp. 359-372.