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 From the 26$th$ of Septemb. to the 3$d$ of October.

And now the Miſery of the City, and of the ſaid Eaſt and South Parts was complete indeed; for as you ſee the Weight of the Diſtemper lay upon thoſe Parts, that is to ſay, the City, the eight Pariſhes over the River, with the Pariſhes of Aldgate, White-Chapel, and Stepney, and this was the Time that the Bills came up to ſuch a monſtrous Height, as that I mention’d before; and that Eight or Nine, and, as I believe, Ten or Twelve Thouſand a Week died; for 'tis my ſettled Opinion, that they never could come at any juſt Account of the Numbers, for the Reaſons which I have given already.

Nay one of the moſt eminent Phyſicians, who has ſince publiſh’d in Latin an Account of thoſe Times, and of his Obſervations, ſays, that in one Week there died twelve Thouſand People, and that particularly there died four Thouſand in one Night; tho’ I do not remember that there ever was any ſuch particular Night, ſo remarkably fatal, as that ſuch a Number died in it: However all this confirms what I have ſaid above of the Uncertainty of the Bills of Mortality, &c. of which I ſhall ſay more hereafter.