From the lazaretto the disease made its way into the city, and began to appear about the 20th of June. By what means it was introduced is not directly said; but it seems to have been by smuggling infected goods. In the beginning of July it began to spread; but a kind of pause having taken place between the 12th and 23d, the physicians were reproached with having mistaken the distemper. During this supposed interval, however, it was discovered on the 18th of July that the disease had spread in a certain part of the city. A surgeon, employed to examine into the matter, declared the distemper to be the worm-fever; and about the 23d the council of health were informed of the death of fourteen persons in that quarter, and of several others falling sick. The surgeon still adhered to his opinion, but a physician declared it to be the true plague. About the end of the month it had got into the suburbs; four physicians declared it to be the true plague, but their report was not believed; they were insulted in the streets, and it was not until some of the inhabitants of better rank were taken ill, that the true state of the matter gained credit. “Such (says Dr. Russel) was the rise of the plague at first, and its progress afterwards in the months of June and July; whence it appears, that persons on board the suspected ship, those employed in airing the goods, a surgeon and a priest, who attended the sick, were among the first infected; that the passengers from the several ships, all of which ships, the first excepted, brought foul patents, were, together with their baggage, admitted into the city, after preforming a quarentine of little more than eighteen days; that the distemper from the 20th of June till towards the end of July advanced very slowly, and sometimes seemed to pause; that it attacked chiefly the poorer sort of people, and was found in distinct quarters of the city; and lastly, that, _during the first forty days, few or none of the infected recovered_; a circumstance entirely consonant to what was observed in the beginning of the plague at Aleppo.” Three other facts are mentioned by our author, viz. that the disease was evidently communicated by infection; that those who were careful to seclude themselves from all communication with the sick and with infected goods, were not infected; and lastly, that the disease, which began to rage violently in August, continued to do so through that and the following month, but declined fast in the months of October and November, and seemed to cease in the middle of winter. Some accidents happened in 1721, between the months of February and July, which gave occasional alarm; but the distemper did not spread, and ceased entirely after the summer solstice of that year.