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method of deflroying ants in one of theif 

 Weft-India Iflands, and it had the defired 

 effea:. 



3. Dogs. It is not through an antipathy to 

 dogs that I clals them here among vermini 

 I am led to it by fadts, which, though not 

 extraordinary, ought to be known. 



A few years ago the whole country was 

 alarmed with the apprehenfion of canine 

 MADNESS. A confiderable proportion of the 

 dogs kept in it were adually mad. Much 

 live ftock and feveral pcrfons were bitteni 

 Fortunately, however, thus far none of tbefe 

 have been attacked by that horrid diforder ; 

 but they ftill live under the dreadful appre- 

 henfion of their being every day liable to be 

 fcizcd by the greatctl: calamity human na- 

 ture is liable to *, 



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ilince writing the dbovo no Icfj thr.n fcvcn pcr- 

 fons were, in this phicc, bitten by one dog ! Much live 

 fto.k has iilfo hitely been bitten. In a neigjhbounng 

 ■viUagc a calf which had been bitten was Icized with 

 madnefs, and bit the perfon who had the care of it. 



Whst aggravates the firft-mcntioncd inftancc is, that 

 the perfon to whom the d -g belonged knew that he had 

 been bi ten a few weeks before, yet fuffered him to go 



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