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may be inriched with from your indefatigable La- 
bours. I have not at prefent to add, but to beg you 
would perfuade yourfelf, that no Employ can be 
deemed more honourable, than in your Com- 
mands, by 
SIR, 
Newcaftle, Feb. 9. Tour humble Servant, 
i6 7 |. 
J. Durant. 
XI. A Letter from James Parfons, M. 2). 
F. R. S. to the Prefident ; ferving to intro- 
duce a Remark from John Milner, Efq , 
concerning the burying of the Cows, dead of 
the prefent reigning Diftemper, in Lime or 
not, 
SIR, 
Read June 
1746. 
^•VITHEN the Means for preventing the 
” Infection among the Cattle were 
under Confideration, Burying them was thought the 
moft effectual Method to hinder its Progrefs ; and, 
by way of Improvement to this Project, the Addition 
of Lime was imagined necefiary, for the more fpcedy 
Deftrudtion of the diftemper’d Carcafes. But fome 
Doubts arifing, whether the Lime might not exalt 
the putrid Particles, and help to fpread the Infection, 
it was the Opinion of feveral of the Learned, that it 
was moft fafe, on that account, to bury them with- 
out it. 
This 
