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, may have fine weather for an excursion, when fine weather is even 
- more than usually a necessary adjunct to enjoyment—and that for 
another day the most genial May I have ever recorded, with a 
mean temperature down to to-day of 552 (I see the finest May at 
Carlisle from 1863 to 1885—that of 1868—had only a mean of 
_ 54'2) may continue to hold its own. And if it should, your visit 
to this district will, I trust, be not one of the least pleasant your 
Association has had. 
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