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obferved amongft ’em one fmall Particle, not of a fingle 
Feather, fuch as it appears to our naked Eye upon the 
Body of a Bird, but rather of the fineft Down ^ and the 
more I unravell’d or feparatcd the Particles of Wooll 
from one another, ftill the greater reafon had I to judge, 
that the Pcrfon who had worn the Stocking had been ufed 
to go often bare*fcoted upon the Floor. 
Now fuppofing that thefe woolly Particles might have 
fallen into any Spoon-Meat thicker than ordinary, the 
Perfon might fwallow it down without being aware of 
:k 5 and if this had happened in fome Countries, ’twould 
have been recorded for Witchcraft. 
No w my reafons for guefling that thefe woolly Parti- 
cles fhould come out of a Stocking, and that that fiiou'd 
be occafion’d by the motion of the Foot, are thefe that 
follow : I my felf always wear heavy white wooWen 
Under-ftockings, and I lye in the fame 5 infomuch that I 
Gin wear ’em three Weeks together becaufe, I am not in- 
clin’d to fweat in my Feet , now having fevcral times 
view’d the broken woollen Particles which lye in a heap 
as it were cleaving together under the Heel, and having 
alfo fingled out of them feveral Fibres or Threads of * 
Wcoll, to prove that they are compofed of little Hairs,, 
and thefe woolly Particles exactly agreeing with thofe 
that were fenc to me, I could no longer doubt that the 
faid Woolley Particles that were fo fent to me, were any 
wiys different from thofe Particles that were found in the • 
Heel of the Stocking 5 *tis,true that amongft the woolley. 
Particles of my Stockings I never met with any Wood or 
Scraw, but the reafon of that was, that I have not touch- 
ed the Ground with my naked Feet for fome Years, being, 
unable to bear any Cold in my Feet ^ nay fo far that in 
the Nights, even in'the Summer time, I put a Tin or Pew- 
ter Bottle filled with warm Water to the boUom of my 
Feet, by which means I prefer ve my felf, as I fancy, from 
that Plague called the Gout. 
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