Show no epidemics at mecca mecca was compared by burton to bath but lias has been likened by other writers to florence without beauty it has had a full share of flood fire and sword but it Is said ne never verto to have suffered sult ered from any serious epidemic says the london chronicle this seems the more remarkable because the city lies at the lowest level of a valley which must be kil a cesspool and the sewage having no outlet percolates into the wells the immunity ascribed by to miraculous interposition of providence on behalf of mecca the inviolable Is I 1 due to the dry climate the fact that r C t of the inhabitants have the fine physical vigor needed for a long journy journ jour nry y and the absence fit ff destitution the thousands seen begging lyre 17 re beggars at a fair reaping the ila har r vest ot of wealth brought by pilgrims grims t |