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 of the blague in (6y^ &c. 5 terrible the Tracks of fuch Light may be circumftanced. The People therefore were fright ned without Reafon at fuch Things, and the Mifchief was much'. more in the Predictions of the Star-Gazers, than in- die Stars themfelves: Nothing could how- ever conquer thefe fad iHipreffions, fo powerful were they amongrl: the Populace, who anticipated their unhappy Fate with their Fears, and precipitated their own Deftru£Hon. BUT to pafs by Things of lefs Mo- ment, it is to-be noted, that a very hard Frofl: begun in December, which con- tinued three Months, and feemed greatly to deaden the Contagion, and very few- died during that Seafon ; although even then it was not extinguished, for in the Middle of Chifimas Holy-Days, I was called to a Young-Man in a Fever, who after two Days Courfe of Alexlterial Medicines, had two Rifnigs about the Eignefs of a Nutmeg broke out, one on each Thigh • upon Examination of which,- I foon dip covered the Malignity, both from their black Hue, and the Circle round them, and pronounced it to be the Plague in . which Opinion I was afterwards confirmed B 3 by