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informed them the place was unhealthy, on 

 account of the badness of the water there ; 

 for a horse had been drowned in the well 

 from which he got the water that they 

 drank the day following. These men went 

 to the well to draw up water ; when they 

 found in the bucket some hair, the mane of 

 a horse ; and immediately supposing that it 

 was the hair of the horse that was drowned, 

 they were taken sick, and vomited to a very 

 great degree : one of them was so ill that he 

 was carried home in a cart ; the other walk- 

 ed thither with some difficulty, and remain- 

 ed indisposed several days. The case was, 

 there had been a horse drowned ; but it 

 was in a well that had been rilled up, fifteen 

 yards from the other : the hair which they 

 discovered, had been taken from a horse of 

 mine, and accidentally blown into the well. 

 Now, from this and other events of the 

 same nature, I do not wonder at the con- 

 jurors having that persuasory power over 

 thieves. 



There was a gentleman of my acquaint-* 



