to it.  Every year thousands undergo this operation; and the French ambassador says pleasantly, that they take the small-pox here by way of diversion, as they take the waters in other countries.  There is no example of any one that has died in it; and you may believe I am well satisfied of the safety of this experiment, since I intend to try it on my dear little son.  I am patriot enough to take pains to bring this useful invention into fashion in England; and I should not fail to write to some of our doctors very particularly about it, if I knew any one of them that I thought had virtue enough to destroy such a considerable branch of their revenue, for the good of mankind.  But that distemper is too beneficial to them, not to expose to all their resentment the hardy wight (sic) that should undertake to put an end to it.  Perhaps, if I live to return, I may, however, have courage to war with them.  Upon this occasion, admire the heroism in the heart of
                                                 Your friend, &c. &c.

LET.  XXXII.

TO MRS T——.

Adrianople, April 1.  O. S. 1718 (sic).

I CAN now tell dear Mrs T——­, that I am safely arrived at the end of my very long journey.  I will not tire you with the account of the many fatigues I have suffered.  You would rather be informed of the strange things that are to be seen here; and a letter out of Turkey, that has nothing extraordinary in it, would be as great a disappointment, as my visitors will receive at London, if I return thither without any rarities to shew them.—­What shall I tell you of?—­You never saw camels in your life; and perhaps the description of them will appear new to you; I can assure you the first sight of them was so to me; and though I have seen hundreds of pictures of those animals, I never saw any that was resembling enough, to give a true idea of them.  I am going to make a bold observation, and possibly a false one, because nobody has ever made it before me; but I do take them to be of the stag kind; their legs, bodies, and necks, are exactly shaped like them, and their colour very near the same.  ’Tis true they are much larger, being a great deal higher than a horse; and so swift, that, after the defeat of Peterwaradin, they far outran the swiftest horses, and brought the first news of the loss of the battle to Belgrade.  They are never thoroughly tamed; the drivers take care to tie them one to another, with strong ropes, fifty in a string, led by an ass, on which the driver rides.  I have seen three hundred in one caravan.  They carry the third part more than any horse; but ’tis a particular art to load them, because of the bunch on their backs.  They seem to be very ugly creatures, their heads being ill-formed and disproportioned (sic) to their bodies.  They carry all the burdens; and the beasts destined to the plough, are buffaloes, an animal you are also unacquainted with.  They are larger and more clumsy than an ox; they have short thick black