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Peafe.] They have now and then eaten peafe and 
peafe-broth. Thefe they have always bought, as 
others do, at the diop : and they have never dilagreed 
with any of the family, except only on Sunday, Ja- 
nuary io. Three of the children were then fick after 
eating them j but became eafy after they had vo- 
mited. 
Pork.] This, I find, they generally bought pickled, 
of the farmer, whom I lodge with. The farmer’s 
family, and leveral others, have conftantly eaten it. 
In this part of the country, there is a great deal of 
old ewe-mutton , killed between the firft of November 
and January, fome of which is very poor, and rotten, 
and is ufually fold at three halfpence, or perhaps one 
penny, a pound. In December lad, this family lived 
for three weeks, at lead, upon this mutton, of which 
they bought a quarter at a time, weighing feven or 
eight pounds, for one (hilling. 
The man is fo prepoffeiTed with notions of witch- 
craft, and is fo obdinate in his opinion, that I cannot 
excite in him even a defire of attributing this difeafe 
to any other caufe. 
Since my lad letter to you, Mary, (aged fixteen) 
who fit for fourteen weeks in a great chair, and for 
feven days without any feet, or dedi on her leg-bones, 
has consented to have the bones taken off. She is 
now in bed : the abfcefs is healing, and die feems 
likely to do well. 
The father’s fingers are almod healed. But he 
every day feels fcvere darting pains in many parts of 
his body. 
The mother lies in bed, with her leg-bones bare, 
which fhe will nqt differ to be taken off Her hands 
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