This concludes the list.
"Whence we may safely infer," says Monsignor Perrelli at the
termination of this chapter, "that our island is second to no part of
the globe in this divine gift of salutary waters. And if some should
ask why certain of these springs have recently undergone a marked
diminution in volume we can but answer, simply and truthfully, that
their virtues are no longer in as great demand as formerly. For is it
not a fact that distempers like leprosy and PLICA POLONICA are now
almost unknown on Nepenthe? It follows that the waters adapted to
maladies such as these have performed their appointed task, so far as
this island is concerned. They are doubtless flowing elsewhere, through
mysterious channels of the earth, to carry their health-giving virtues
into fresh regions for the saving of men's lives, to the glory of their
Creator."
Thus far the learned and ingenious Monsignor Perrelli. . . .
It stands to reason that so remarkable a chapter should not have
escaped the notice of the bibliographer who, as already observed, had
been engaged for the last quarter of a century in elucidating the text
of the old historian and enriching it with footnotes for the better
understanding of modern students.
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