brought those _Goods_: the next were those, who attended upon the same _Goods_, while they were under _Quarantaine_; and soon after the _Surgeon_, whom the Magistrates of _Marseilles_ appointed to examine the Bodies of those, who died. THIS Relation, if duly consider'd, is, I believe, sufficient to remove all the Doubts any one can have about the Power of _Merchandize_ to convey _Infection_: for it affords all the Evidence, the most scrupulous can reasonably desire. Possibly there might be some Fever of extraordinary Malignity in _Marseilles_, such as is commonly called _Pestilential_, before the Arrival of these Goods: But no such Fever has any indisputable Right to the Title of _Pestilence_, as I have before shewn. On the contrary, these two, the real _Pestilence_, and such _Pestilential Fevers_, must carefully be distinguished, if we design to avoid all Mistakes in reasoning upon these Subjects. SOME such Fever of uncommon Malignity, I say, might perhaps be in _Marseilles_ before the Arrival of these Goods. There might likewise perhaps be an Instance or two of _Fevers_ attended with _Eruptions_, bearing some Resemblance to those of the _Plague_: for such I my self have sometimes seen here in _London_. But it is not conceivable, that there should be any Appearance of the true _Plague_ before that time: for it was full six Weeks from the time of the Sailor's Death, which had given the Alarm, and raised a general Attention, before the Magistrates received Information of any one's dying of the _Plague_ in the City. And I believe it was never known, that the _Plague_, being once broke out, gave so long a Truce in hot Weather. THE _Plague_, which has this present Year almost depopulated _Messina_, affords a _third_ Instance of the same kind. By an authentic Relation of it, published here[53] we are informed, that a _Genoese_ Vessel from the _Levant_, arrived at that City; and upon notice given that a Sailor, who had touched some Cases of _Cotton Stuffs_ bought up at _Patrasso_ in the _Morea_, where the Distemper then raged, was dead of the Plague, in the Voyage; the Ship was put under _Quarantaine_: during which time the _Cotton Stuffs_ were privately landed. The Master and some Sailors dying three days after, the Vessel was burnt. These Goods lay for some time concealed, but were soon after publickly sold: upon which the Disease immediately broke out in that _Quarter_ where they were opened; and afterwards was spread through the whole City.