TOlSS&INT L'OUTERTURE.


 Sthe face was inflamed, and dyed of a dark, dull-red
 the ears from time to time rang painfully. Now mucous
 a surcharged the tongue, and took awa. the power of
 ; now the sick man spoke, but in speaking had a Ibre-
 ( death. When the viol.-nce of the disorder approached
 the gunm were blackened. The sk-ep. broken, or
 d by convulsions or by frightful vision, was worse than
 king hours, and when thr reason sank under the deli-
 -which had its stea in thk- brain, repose utterly forsook the
 t's rouch. The progress of the fire within was marked
 leowish spots, which spread olnr the surface of the body.
 n, a happy crisi c<amen not. all hope was gone. Soon the
 infected the air with a frtid odor, the, lip. glazed, despair
 d itself in the eyes, and. sob., with I[lng inti-ral]h oft'ilnce,
 the only lanuag,:. Fiom rcal.h id,. (t' the mouth spread
 ,tinged with blaik and burnt bl.ood. Blue streakL mingled
 the yellow over all the frame. Death came on the thir-
 day, though more common it tarried till the seven-
 h. All remediie were uLtlc s. Rarely did the victims

 e malady pr.xldu'ed a general melancholy. Its depressing
 t were visible in the troops who had not yet been stricken
 Sthe river. You saw the men regard each other with fur-
E glances, and in deep yvet ominous silence; their arms looked
6iBshed; their -teps were heavy and slow. TUneonquerableat
|le field, they already felt thbmselt-les the victims of destiny.
len undergoing review, the men, scar.ely expecting to see
h other again, affected a iboli'h gpyety, the real character
twhirh wa.w betray.d by a bitter -mile, or took leace of each
er sadly, as pilgrimA, through rulr;u'.ril;, to the dark *hores of
.eternal world.
iThe city ofl' h.r (C'alpe tli. pr.nl-.nted cn- on f thoe sights
ch are rart. in thtb hi-tory .f human ,.-alamiti,-. Scarcely
Ia part of thie- buildin.rs dr.-troyed by the conflagration been
tilv reconstructed, when the town and the hospitals were
Pd with the sick and the dying. The chief hospital, situated