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ordered to difpatch phyficians and furgeons to thofe places 

 where their prefence was moft neceffary. The chief com- 

 plaint was refpecling the mortality among the cattle ; but in 

 fome places men and women were feized with the diforder, 

 and died fuddcnly. I was obliged, therefore, to fet out in 

 all hafte on the 26th of July, accompanied by Chemnitz 

 the furgeon, for the village Tfchudowo, at the diftance of 

 116 werfts from Peterfburgh, where we arrived next day. 

 On inquiry, we learned from enfign Solopof, who com- 

 manded the poft-people in that diftrift, that, lince the J 7th 

 of June, fcve.n perfons had died, in the courfe of from two to 

 four davs, with boils and tumours, and that two were ftill 

 exceedingly ill : that, on account of the drynefs of the land, 

 feveral cows, but particularly horfes, had died alfo. On re- 

 ceivincr this intelligence, we caufed the road on each fide of 

 the village to be barricadoed with planks, eftabliflicd guards 

 at the barriers, and obliged the pofi; and other travellers to pafs 

 round over the fields to the next llatlon. We then entered the 

 village to vifit the fick, and found thatflne perfon had died in 

 the night-time with carbuncles on the neck and legs. A 

 woman who had a large carbuncle on her face was fiill alive. 

 In the courfe of about a month, four cows and twenty-eight 

 horfes had died, all of which had tumours on the neck, bread, 

 belly, or fcrotum. I dcfired an officer and twenty foldiers to 

 keen ftrift watch, in order to prevent all communication be- 

 tween the village and the neighbourhood ; and we then took 

 up our quarters on the rivulet called Keretz, in a houfe be- 

 lonsine to field-marflial Albrecht, which was then unoccu- 

 pied. In a little time feveral more were attacked by the like 

 atfetStions, and died in the courfe of one or two days. They 

 all had tumours on their neck, breaft, and head, with black 

 blifi^ers like real carbuncles ; but we obferved in none of them 

 either cold or heat : their pulie was fcarcely perceptible ; they 

 lav fome time fenfelefs, and then expired. 



" As the direafc now began to extend itfelf to the neigh- 

 bouring villages, I lent for more foldiers, and the fenate dif- 

 patched lieutenant De Cominges with twenty men. The 

 poft-ftas;e at the diftance of a werlt and a half from us, 

 where there were twenty people and thirty horfes, appeared 



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