Above the bridge, most of the wherries and other smaller craft had disappeared, their owners having taken them up the river, and moored them against its banks at different spots, where they lived in them under tilts.

Many hundreds of persons remained upon the river in this way during the whole continuance of the visitation.
August had now arrived, but the distemper knew no cessation.

On the contrary, it manifestly increased in violence and malignity.

The deaths rose a thousand in each week, and in the last week in this fatal month amounted to upwards of sixty thousand! But, terrible as this was, the pestilence had not yet reached its height.

Hopes were entertained that when the weather became cooler, its fury would abate; but these anticipations were fearfully disappointed.
The bills of mortality rose the first week in September to seven thousand, and though they slightly decreased during the second week--awakening a momentary hope--on the third they advanced to twelve thousand! In less than ten days, upwards of two thousand persons perished in the parish of Aldgate alone; while Whitechapel suffered equally severely.