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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe: distinguished by their long hair, and of others the flesh was not quite
perished; so that the people began to exclaim loudly against it, and
some suggested that it might endanger a return of the contagion; after
which the bones and bodies, as fast as they came at them, were carried
to another part of the same ground and thrown all together into a deep
pit, dug on purpose, which now is to be known in that it is not built
on, but is a passage to another house at the upper end of Rose Alley,
just against the door of a meeting-house which has been built there
many years since; and the ground is palisadoed off from the rest of the
passage, in a little square; there lie the bones and remains of near two
thousand bodies, carried by the dead carts to their grave in that one year.
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