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making on his empire . ( Pp . 320 , SSI . ) 3 . Vaccination , The ratio of the population to the number of births would be increased if we could diminish or destroy any disease that is dangerous and common . This has been
done , happily , in the case of the small-pox , first by the common inoculation for the disease itself , and afterwards in a much more complete mariner by the vaccine
inoculation , the inestimable dis . covery of Jenncr , who has iendered himself , by that means , one of the greatest benefactors of the human raee ^—~— - ikf . Duvilard
has found that the mean duration cf human life is increased at least three years by the vaccine in * oculation . ( Pp . 33 £ ) , 340 , an extract from Essai Philosophique sur les Probabilities par Laplace . ) 4 , A Religious Sect
We were amused with observing [ Lisiansk ^ ' s Voyage round the World , 4 to . 1814 . ] an account of a religious sect in the Sand * uicli Islands , who arrogate to thcmsehes the power of fraying people to death * Whoever incurs
their displeasure , receives notice that the homicide litany is about td begin , and such are the effects of imagination , that the very notice ia frequently sufficient wiih these poor peaftfe to produce the effect , of to drive them to acts of suicide . ( P . 345 . )
5 . A new Island . In the neighbourhood cfOonalasfaca , which is situated about the centre of the Aleutian chain , a
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new island , nearly twenty tnifa in circumference ^ has beenforrned within these twenty years . The following is the account of it which M . Lisiansky collected from eye-witnesses at Cadiack :
" In the evening of the 26 th while I was alone , writing the memorandums of my journal , a Russian introduced himself , who
had resided on the island of Oonalashca , when a new island sfarted up in its vicinity . I had heard of this phenomenon , and was therefore desirous to learn what
he knew respecting it * He said that about the middle of April , 1797 , a small island was seen where no island had been seen before . That the first intimation of
its appearance had been brought by some Aleutians to Captain ' s Harbour , who , returning from fishing , observed a great smoke issuing put of the sea : that this
% vas the smoke of the volcano , > vhich was then gradually rising above the surface of the sea , and which in May , 1798 , burst forth with a blaze , that was distinctly seen from a settlement called
Macoosiuno , on the island of Oonalascha , at the distance of no less than 40 miles to the north-west . This new island is tolerably high , and about 20 miles in
circumference . It has been remarked , mat it has not increased in size since the year I 79 i ) ; and that no alte . ration has taken place in its appearance ^ except that some of the highest points have been thrown down by violent ^ ruptions . p . 17 5 ' ( t \ 347 . )
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670 Vaccination , tyc .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1814, page 670, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2446/page/10/
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