This was sometimes troublesome: I found the most ready way of explaining my employment was to ask them how it was that they themselves were not curious concerning earthquakes and volcanos ?--why some springs were hot and others cold ?--why there were mountains in Chile, and not a hill in La Plata?
These bare questions at once satisfied and silenced the greater number; some, however (like a few in England who are a century behindhand), thought that all such inquiries were useless and impious; and that it was quite sufficient that God had thus made the mountains.
An order had recently been issued that all stray dogs should be killed, and we saw many lying dead on the road.

A great number had lately gone mad, and several men had been bitten and had died in consequence.

On several occasions hydrophobia has prevailed in this valley.

It is remarkable thus to find so strange and dreadful a disease appearing time after time in the same isolated spot.

It has been remarked that certain villages in England are in like manner much more subject to this visitation than others.