in it, there will be little
Reason to believe, that the Air of the rest of the Country is in a much
better State.

FOR the same Reason _Quarantaines_ should more strictly be enjoined,
when the _Plague_ is in a bordering Kingdom, than when it is more
remote.

THE Advice here given with respect to _Goods_, is not only abundantly
confirmed from the Proofs, I have given above, that _Goods_ have a Power
of spreading _Contagion_ to distant Places; but might be farther
illustrated by many Instances of ill Effects from the Neglect of this
Caution in Times of the _Plague_. I shall mention two, which happen'd
among us during the last _Plague_. I have had occasion already to
observe, that the _Plague_ was in _Poole_. It was carried to that Place
by some _Goods_ contained in a _Pedlar's Pack_. The _Plague_ was
likewise at _Eham_ in the Peak of _Derbyshire_, being brought thither by
means of a Box sent from _London_ to a Taylor in that Village,
containing some Materials relating to his Trade. There being several
Incidents in this latter Instance, that will not only serve to establish
in particular the Precepts I have been giving, in relation to Goods, but
likewise all the rest of the Directions, that have been set down, for
stopping the Progress of the _Plague_ from one Town to another; I shall
finish this Chapter with a particular Relation of what passed in that
Place. A Servant, who first opened the foresaid _Box_, complaining that
the Goods were damp, was ordered to dry them at the Fire; but in doing
it, was seized with the _Plague_, and died: the same Misfortune
extended itself to all the rest of the Family, except the Taylor's Wife,
who alone survived. From hence the Distemper spread about and destroyed
in that Village, and the rest of the Parish, though a small one, between
two and three hundred Persons. But notwithstanding this so great
Violence of the Disease, it was restrained from reaching beyond that
Parish by the Care of the Rector; from whose Son, and another worthy
Gentleman, I have the Relation. This Clergyman advised, that the _Sick_
should be removed into _Hutts_ or _Barracks_ built upon the _Common_;
and procuring by the Interest of the then Earl of _Devonshire_, that the
People should be well furnished with Provisions, he took effectual Care,
that no one should go out of the Parish: and by this means he protected
his Neighbours from Infection with compleat Success.

I have now gone through the chief Branches o