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s are most fearful in dirty and closely built towns; but it appears also in the most cleanly and airy locations. There is a small village, inhabited by a few coal-burners, on the divide between Nice and Aqui. The air could not be purer and the people were employed in a healthy occupation. Cholera broke out there and half the people were attacked. I saw the case reported as a proof of the incomprehensible nature of the disease; but on inquiry I find that a family, flying from cholera at Marseilles, sickened and died of it in this mountain village, and that other people in the same house caught the disease from these unfortunate fugitives. In the circle of Melozzo one hundred and twenty-one cases and sixty-eight deaths resulted from a similar importation, though the region of Melozzo is a healthy and cleanly one. That rulers can be so short-sighted as to conceal facts of this nature, passes my comprehension. Rumor will outrun reality, and if the facts are suppressed, rumor has