Still, as a far greater number of the infected were here congregated, and could be seen at one view, the picture was incomparably more impressive.

Every part of the cathedral was occupied.

Those who could not find room inside it crouched beneath the columns of the portico on rugs or blankets, and implored the chirurgeons as they passed to attend them.

Want of room also drove others into Saint Faith's, and here the scene was, if possible, more hideous.

In this dismal region it was found impossible to obtain a free circulation of air, and consequently the pestilential effluvia, unable to escape, acquired such malignancy, that it was almost certain destruction to inhale it.