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A Learned and very Ingenious Gentleman of this 
Country told me not long fmce, that ^ above twenty 
Years ago, when at School, he- and leveral off his 
Schoolfellows, (how many I don’t exactly remember) 
infedled themfelves at the lame time;' frorn_ the fame 
Perfon, and that not one of them milcarry’d, though 
he had more of the Small Pox than he defign’d. I am 
latisfy’d he will readily give a more particular Rela- 
tion of this Aflair, if defired. , I am forry he happens 
at prefent to be at a confiderable Dillance from- this 
Town, otherwife I would have been more exad: in 
this Account. 
Haverford JVefiy 
Se^t. i8. I 71 X. 
‘Ter rot JViUiams. 
I Should not have lb long omitted the Return of my 
Thanks, for the Favour of yours of 06i, 15 '. but 
that I hitherto waited an Opportunity to Ipeak with 
the Gentleman, whom I mention’d in my lafl. His 
Name is George Owen^ a Counlellor at Law, elded 
Son to Dr. Owegi, formerly Archdeacon in the Dio- 
cele of St. ‘David’s. He Iblemnly declares, that ha- 
ving, when at School, as I formerly faid, rubb’d the 
Skin off his Left Hand, where the Scar is now very 
vifible, with the back Edge of his Penknife, till the 
Blood began to appear, he apply’d the variolous Mat- 
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