THE right Inference to be made from these Experiments, I think, would have been this: That since the Blood and all the Humors are so greatly corrupted in the Plague, as that Dogs (tho' not so liable to catch the Distemper in the ordinary way of Infection, as Men are) may receive it by a small Quantity of any of these from a diseased Subject being mixed with their Blood; it may well be supposed, that the =Effluvia= from an infected Person, drawn into the Body of one who is sound, may be pestiferous and productive of the like Disorder. MY Assertion, that these =French= Physicians have before them the fullest Proofs of this =Infection=, not only appears from these Instances of it, I have observed to be recorded by themselves; but likewise from what Dr. =le Moine= and Dr. =Bailly=[10] have written, of the Manner in which the =Plague= was brought to =Canourgue= in the =Gevaudan=: as also from an amazing Instance they give us of the great Subtilty of this =Poison=, experienced at =Marvejols=: where no less than =sixty= Persons were at once infected in a =Church=, by one that came thither out of an infected House. The =Plague= was carried from =Marseilles= to =Canourgue=, as follows. A =Gally-Slave=, employed in burying the Dead at =Marseilles=, escaped from thence to the Village of =St. Laurent de Rivedolt=, a League distant from =Correjac=: where finding a Kinsman, who belonged to the latter Place, he presented him with a =Waistcoat= and a =pair of Stockings= he had brought along with him. The =Kinsman= returns to his Village, and dies in two or three Days; being followed soon after by =three Children= and their =Mother=. His =Son=, who lived at =Canourgue=, went from thence, in order to bury the Family; and, at his Return, gave to his =Brother-in-law= a =Cloak= he had brought with him: the =Brother-in-law= laying it upon his Bed, lost a little =Child= which lay with him, in one Day's Time; and two Days after, his Wife; =himself= following in seven or eight. The =Parents= of this unhappy Family, taking Possession of the =Goods= of the Deceased, underwent the same Fate.