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life, and dedroying that fource of nourifhment 

 fo abfolutely neceflary to be diftributed pure 

 through the whole fvdem. Blood in the found- 

 eftftateis fuppofed to contain five parts in fix 

 of water; and when thefe ravenous flowks have 

 fed for a length of time on the moft foiid part, 

 as fheep muft hold down their heads to feed, 

 the v/atery ferum fettles underneath the chaps, 

 and forms what we call a choker. 



When the flowks have beenfome time in the 

 liver, and have become large, they will form 

 cells forthemfelves, around which the parts will 

 be hard or callous; and the whole liver will be- 

 come a concretion of knots and lumps. When 

 you kill a flieep of this kind, the liver will ap- 

 pear like a lump of congealed blood, the blood- 

 vefTelswiil be found to be inhabited by a nume- 

 rous family, the flowk will be large and lively; 

 and in the dv/ellings they have formed for them- 

 felves you will difcover a yellow matter, which 

 I take to be their excrement. 



Notwithftanding the lofs of blood which 

 fheep troubled with this diforder mud certainly 

 lufFer, I have knov/n many, that, after being 



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