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Article XLVL 

 noughts on the RoT in Shej:p. 



To the Secretary of the Bath Agriculture Society, 

 SIR, 



THE great attention of the Bath Society to 

 fuch fubjcfts ^s promote the publick good, 

 induces me to trouble you with a few loofe thoughts 

 relative to a diforder mod fatal in an animal of 

 vaft importance to the " agriculture, manufadures, 

 *' and commerce of this kingdom/* 



The caufe of the Rot in Sheep, fays Mr. Bos- 

 well, in his late ingenious Treatife on watering 

 Meadows, is unknown. — Mr. Arthur Young, in 

 r^jcapitulating all the information he could get in 

 bis Eaftern Tour, obfcrves, that " the accounts are 

 fo amazingly contradidlory, that nothing can be 

 gathered from them," but concludes, that " e^erf 

 ((ne knows that moifturc is the caufe," 



In differing from an author of Mr. Young's ^- 

 knowledged merit, fupported by the general opi- 

 nion of mankind, I am led to examine my owi^ 

 fentiments with caution and diftruft^ — but unlefs ii; 

 \^ qnly fnpant^ that nrioifture is generally the remofei 



