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78 pretend, that the Circaians borrow'd this Cutom anciently from the Arabians; but we hall leave the clearing up of this Point of Hitory to ome learned Benedictine, who will not fail to compile a great many Folio's on this Subject, with the everal Proofs or Authorities. All I have to ay upon it, is, that in the beginning of the Reign of King George the Firt, the Lady Wortley Mountague, a Woman of as fine a Genius, and endu'd with as great a Strength of Mind, as any of her Sex in the Britih Kingdoms, being with her Huband who was Ambaador at the Port, made no cruple to communicate the Small-Pox to an Infant of which he was deliver'd in Contantinople. The Chaplain repreented to his Lady, but to no purpoe, that this was an unchritian Operation, and therefore that it cou'd ucceed with none but Infidels. However, it had the mot happy Effect upon the Son of the Lady Wortley Mountague, who, at her Return to England, communicated the Experiment to the Princes of Wales, now