Is this truly a Plague, _feeble and week_ thro’ travelling? And did infinite Persons die suddenly of it? And that in Twenty four Hours. Pray, what can we think happen’d to the Nations that felt the sharp end of it, and those that came under its Fury, long before it reach’d us? Surely more than infinite Persons of them must have perished, and in infinitely shorter Time than Twenty four Hours, so that great Tracts of Country must have been dispeopled in one Day. Can any Man think an _Æra_ as remarkable as the _Deluge_, could pass in History without Observation? Or, that all Historians should overlook so great a Wonder, the very Soul of an Historian, and all to fix a Calumny on our _English_ Air, and to call a _monstrous_ Disease a _British_ Fever? It must be owned, that the Doctor is the greatest Traveller that ever was; for he has entertained us with the most _admirable_ and _surprizing_ Relation of the _Feats_ and _Travels_ of a Plague that ever was told. This sufficiently shews the great _Candor_ of our Author, and his great _Judgment_ in comparing Diseases, as has been already noted by another Hand; for if a Plague kills infinite Persons in Twenty four Hours, I cannot see how properly it can be called _Feeble_; nay, if a true Judgment is made of it, the Plague in _France_ is not to be compared to it for its Strength; and, God knows, the _French_ find its Power too great, and God grant that we may never try its Feebleness. Our Author’s _Judgment_ is no less conspicuous, in comparing what he calls the _Dunkirk Fever_, with the _Sweating Sickness_, for that was neither an _Ephemera_ of one, nor of more Days; neither did it terminate in Twenty four Hours. How then are those two Diseases alike, that have nothing of the same _Features_ or Resemblance, no more than the Time of their Duration was the same. Besides, this was not the Fag-end of any Plague, but a Fever we find to be very common in all the Marshy Places in the Low Countries; and what the _Dutch_ call a Fever from the POLDERS, and that happens in the end of a hot Summer, or in the beginning of the Autumn. But if I may guess by the _Cant_ Name we find this Fever bears, of the _Dunkirk Fever_, I may believe the Doctor means that _Schelick_ Fever that happened in 1715; but I will not answer for the Time: This Fever was then called the _Galloping_ Fever, because too many Physicians knew not a more proper Name for it, and it was a new Disease to them. This Fever indeed lasted 3 or 4 Days, and often went off with a gentle Sweat, but killed no body, whatever Method they took for curing it, or that they did not any thing for its Cure. Now, with Submission to the great Dr. _Mead_, I cannot find the Relation and Likeness this _Galloping Fever_ has to the _Sweating Sickness_, Native of _England_, in the very beginning, and the end of the Reign of _Henry_ VII.