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 tent itself with reasons of this kind; for God, who has all the elements and everything in nature at his command, can employ a thousand means to obtain his aim without working miracles. The natural cause of the plague ceasing at that time in Egypt is the great heat; Fahrenheit's thermometer at that time standing generally at 90 or 92 degrees in the shade. It has several times fallen under my own immediate observation, that vessels came to Alexandria from other parts of Turkey, with many people on board affected by the plague, after that period, but the infection never took, and even the patients who came on shore infected with that disorder frequently recovered."

Observations on Egypt, p. 43. This very diffident, and yet very sagacious Moravian observes, that "this has made him think whether the same degree of artificial heat, so as to occasion a constant perspiration, might not be of more benefit, even to those infected by