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The next day Dr. Watfon was at Wal- 

 tham-abbey, and faw one of the men fo 

 much recovered, that he only complained of 

 a heavinefs in his head j and the other was 

 fo well, as to be able to perform his regi- 

 mental exercifes. There was a fifth foldier, 

 who informed the dodtor, that he eat fome 

 of the bread out of the broth, but perceived 

 very little inconvenience from it. It hap- 

 pened that the two men who gathered the 

 herbs were thofe that died. 



A Dutch officer attended Dr. Watfon to 

 an inn where there were two other foldiers, 

 who had feen and known the herbs which 

 had been eaten. He alfo attended the dodlor 

 into the fields to fhew the plants growing. 

 They firft gathered the cicutaria vulgaris of 

 J. Bauhine, or cow-weed : then the myrrhis 

 fylveftris, feminibus afperis, of Cafper Bau- 

 hine, or fmall hemlock chervil. They then 

 gave the Dodor fome cicuta major, and 

 fmelling it, immediately faid, that was the 

 herb which killed their comrades j which 

 there was no reafon to doubt of, as the two 

 former plants grow under almoft every hedge, 

 and are eaten by cows, and given to tame 

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