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they are always ready to give an advanced price for 
fuch cattle as have recovered from the contagious dis- 
temper. 
The Rev. Mr. Scaife, afliftant to the Rev. Dr, 
Greene, Dean of Salifbury, in his parilh of Cotten- 
ham, Cambridgeftiire, acquaints me, that the farmers 
in that neighbourhood loft, in 1746 and 1747, twelve 
hundred head of cattle, in 1751 four hundred and 
feventy ; and tells me, that Mr. Ivett, Sayers, Moor, 
Dent, Lawfon, chief farmers at (Tottenham, Mr. 
Taylor, Sumpter, and Matthews, of his own pariftt 
of Hifton, and the farmers of Wiveliugham alias 
Willingham, unanimoufly declare, they never had 
one inftance of a beaft having the diftemper twice. 
Mr. Thorpe, a farmer and grazier near Gainsbo- 
rough in Lincolnlhire, has had beafts recovered from 
the diftemper, which have herded with cattle fallen 
ill afterwards, and never met with a fingle inftance 
cf a fecond infedtion. 
Mr. Loftie, an eminent furgeon at Canterbury, has 
inquired for me of the farmers and graziers in that 
part of Kent, and about Romney-Marih ; and from 
whence no belief of a fecond infedtion can be had. 
The Rev. Dr. Fountayne, Dean of York, writes 
me word, that no beaft has been known, in his 
neighbourhood, to have had the diftemper twice. 
And feveral perfons from that county, and others, 
have told me the fame thing. 
If the above teftimony of perfons of charadter and 
veracity, together with the concurrent perfuafion of 
farmers in general, be allowed of, it muft be deter- 
mined, that there is no inftance of a fecond infedtion. 
Suppofing now it fhould appear, that this diftemper 
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