27. Y O Pv K S H I R E. 3§3 



In the conrfe of lart winter (17S6-7) the 

 VaUie of SHEEP WORRIED BY DOCS, in this 

 townfliip alone, was calculated at near one 

 hundred pounds. A fmall farmer whofc en- 

 tire fiock did not amount to more tlian forty^ 

 had thirteen fliecp and eleven lambs worried 

 in one night. 



Thcfe are not nientioned as fingular fads : 

 every Diftrict and alnioft every year afford 

 indances of a fimilar nature ; nor do I men- 

 tion them to excite a momentary indignation, 

 in the breaft of the reader ; but in hopes 

 that they mav be inftrumental in roufing 

 the humanity of thofe who hr.ve it in their 

 power to mitigate the danger, and Icifen the 



quantity of evil. 



The 



looCc though urged to the contrary. Surely, on cul- 

 prits like this, fome fevere penalty or fome fcvcre pu- 

 niflunent ought to be infliftable. A general law againil 

 every man whofe Jog is faffcred to iiray in a (late uf 

 jnadncfs, might have a good cffetfi:. 



It the practice of "joorming be really effectual in pre- 

 venting the mifchisfs of canine madiKis, a fcveie pe- 

 nalty is due from every o'.vncr'of a dog which has net 

 undergone fo falutary an operation. 



Several infiances are re'ated of pcrfons to whom ca- 

 nine madn&fs has proved fatal in this neighbourhood. 

 And the i;i{lance3 of live ftock which have fuftercd by 

 the fjir.c means are innumerable. 



