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experience of the Hefsians seems to prove, that 
other kinds of food, besides oats, may be employed 
for this purpose; because we cannot suppose that 
domestic animals are subsisted chiefly upon oats 
there more than elsewhere; and as no mention is 
made of any peculiarity of food, we must suppose 
they used only straw or hay along with the yew 
tree. Many facts, that have incidentally attracted the 
notice of attentive observers, will recur to their me- 
_ mory, as tending te corroborate these conclusions. —. 
Of this nature are the following : 
Linneus, in lis journey through Lapland,. rectal, 
that about the village of Torneo in Lapland, a mor- 
tality used to attack the cattle in the spring of each 
year, whith carried off great numbers of them at 
that season. This set him to examine the meadows 
around thé town, on which these cattle fed, to see if 
he could discover any noxious plants growing there, 
which might occasion that fatality. He there in ef- 
fect did find a considerable quantity of the cieuta 
aquatica, which the half famithed animals cropped at 
that season, and the mortality he ascribes to that 
cause ; and as the mortality subsides as the season 
advances, it may be attributed to the cattle leaving 
the hemlock untouched, when other plants could be 
found in abundance. It may be so ;—but from 
these experiments may we not also have reason to 
suspect, that as the other plants spring up in greater 
abundance, they then begin to operate as an antidote 
to the hemlock ; so as that, even if the cattle fhould 
still continue to eat it, it would not prove hurtful 
but salutary to them? Have we not also reason to , 
