540 Dr. lay arb on the Dijiemper 
general, and conftantly raging more or lefs, where the 
fyftem of killing the cattle cannot now be thought of, 
and where inoculation has met with fo many opponents 
of all ranks, there can be no other hope of getting/rid of 
the calamity than by admitting into the United Provinces 
no other cattle than fuch which are found, or recovered 
from the infection 
I Hr all not trouble you, sir, with the returns from 
Holland, or the tables of inoculation in Denmark, which 
would too much increafe the length of this letter, but 
only mention, that in Denmark, where the contagious 
diftemper is become naturalized and general, the Danifh 
government have not only wifely adopted the orders and 
regulations iffued in Great Britain, but have with un- 
wearied application purfued the practice of inoculation. 
Count ber.nsdo.rff and Dr. struensee had all the ne~ 
ceffary inftrudtions, books, and papers, delivered to them 
by me, when the King of Denmark was in England; 
and I am allured by daniel delaval, Efq. lately his 
Majefty’s envoy-extraordinary at that Court, that inocu- 
lation is approved, recommended, and by authority elta- 
blifhed. Even in the firft three years that inoculation 
was pradtifed, of near three hundred head of cattle 
which were inoculated in a Danifh ifland, not a fixth 
(a) By the lad half-yearly return from Holland, the number of infe&ed 
cattle was fo fmall, that it was hoped no further return to the States would ha- 
aeceflfary. 
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