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I have always been fifed to read Lucan s defciiptioft 
of the effects of the bite of the little ferpent, called 
Sets, as fabulous, or at lead greatly exaggerated j and 
the rather, becaufe, as far as I know, fuch an ac- 
count is to be found in no other author, hut I have 
now been an eye-witnefs to almoft the whole fcene 
of horror, fo finely painted in the following lines : 
— Plagce proximo, circum 
Fugit rapt a cutis , pallentiaque ojja retexit . 
Membra not ant fanie : force Jiuxere : fine ullo 
Teg mine poples erat : femorum quoque mufculus omms 
Liquitur , et nigra di fill ant inguina tabe. 
Lucan. Pharfal. Lib. ix. verf. 767. 
Wattifham, 
April 21, 1762. 
LXXXV. ExtraB of a fecond Letter front 
the Rev. Mr, Bones, to Dr. Baker. 
Read May 6, y Have taken all the pains I can to infoim 
i 7 6z * I myfelf of every circumftance, which 
may be deemed a probable caufe of the difeafe, by 
which the poor family in my parilh has been affixed 
But, I fear, I have difcovered nothing, that will be 
fatisfa&ory to you. 
The following is an anfwer to your queries. 
Water.] This they have taken out of a ditch, or 
pool of Handing- water, at their own door (as is com- 
mon in this clay country.) We have no fpring, 
well, in the parilh. Beer-i 
