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has deftroyed fome in every flock round this county^ 

 and made great havock in many. 



The flieep mofl: fubjedl to it are two teeth. It is 

 not infcdious, but hereditary, and undoubtedly 

 runs in the blood. It has no affinity with giddi- 

 nefs, for they do not run round. It moft refembles 

 the daggers in Iambs, with this .difference, that 

 whereas ftaggery lambs fhew weaknefs before, and 

 fall forward, goggly fheep fhew a weaknefs behind, 

 and fall backward, when forced to run. 



When firft obferved to be difeafed, their ears 

 drop, and they rub their tails much more than 

 other fheep; they then difcover the weaknefs 

 above-mentioned, and grow poorer and weaker 

 till they cannot drag their limbs behind them, and 

 at length die. 



I have examined a few, and found the vifcera 

 all found. I have blooded one, and found no 

 inflammatory crufl. I can neither myfelf imagine, 

 nor find one who can venture even to conjedlure, 

 the caufe.* As it is a matter .of confequence, per- 

 haps, were you to make it the fubjedl of the two 



♦ It has been fuggefted to us, that the feat of this difeafe, moft pro- 

 l^ably, is in the fpinal marrow* 



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