The mere relation of the scenes that occurred in the country, even in one of its last visitations, makes one shudder in reading them.

As Barker and Cheyne observe in their report, 'a volume might be filled with instances of the distress occasioned by the visitation of fever in 1817.'" "'On the road leading from Cork, within a mile of the town (Kanturk), I visited a woman laboring under typhus; on her left lay a child very ill, at the foot of the bed another child just able to crawl about, and on her right the corpse of a third child who had died two days previously, which the unhappy mother could not get removed.'-- Letter from Dr.O'Leary, Kanturk.
"'Ellen Pagan, a young woman, whose husband was obliged, in order to seek employment, to leave her almost destitute in a miserable cabin, with three children, gave the shelter of her roof to a poor beggar who had fever.

She herself caught the disease, and from the terror created in the neighborhood, was, with her three children, deserted--except that some person left a little water and milk at the window for the children,--one about four, the other about three years old, and the other an infant at her breast.

In this way she continued for a week, when a neighbor sent her a loaf of bread, which was left in the window.

Four days after this he grew uneasy about her, and one night having prepared some tea and bread, he set off to her ralief.