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20 An Hijiorical Account all the Streets. But alas ! the Controverfie was foon decided • for before the three Days were quite expired, the Heavens both mourned fo many Funerals, and wept for the fatal Miftake, fo as to extinguifh even the Tires with their Showers. I fhall not determine any other Perfon's Conjefture in this Cafe, whether thefe Fires may more properly be deemed the ominous Forerunners of the enfuing Con- flagration, or the enfuing Funerals - 7 but whether it was from the fuffocating Qua- lities of the Fuel, or the wet Conftituti- on of Air that immediately followed, the moft fatal Night enfued, wherein more than four Thoufand expired. May Poite- rity by this Miftake be warned, and not, like Empyricks, apply a Remedy where they are ignorant of the Caufe. THE Reader is by the Way to be advertifed, that this Year was luxuriant in moft Fruits, efpecially Cherries and Grapes, which were at fo low a Price, that the common People furfeited with them for this might very much con- tribute to that Difpofition of Body, as made the Peftilencial Taint more eaiily take Place. NOR