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not get away, having hurt herfelf by the fall, which (he imputed, as the 

 Abbefs told me, to the grofs aliments (les gros aliments) they had given 

 her ; and being brought back again to her confinement, (he fell into 

 a very bad difeafe, of which fhe had very near died. Prince Ferdi- 

 nand's army, which had kept its health fo well in the winter cam- 

 paign, when they were brought back again to their winter-quarters, 

 grew fickly. And, to give a very late inftance of the fame kind, 

 Lord Cornwallis's army, which kept their health perfedly well du- 

 ring their winter-campaign in Virginia, without tents or covering 

 of any kind, became extremely fickly when they v/ere confined in 

 that fatal camp where they w^ere all made prifoners. And it is a facl 

 well known, that we generally lofe more men in winter-quarters 

 than we do in the field ; which is foolifhly imputed, by ignorant 

 people, to the hardfhips they had fuffered in the preceding cam- 

 paign, not to the change of life. 



I will give one inftance more, which fell under my own ob- 

 fervation, of the danger of this change. There is an old beggar 

 in my neighbourhood in the country, who is eighty years of age, 

 with a frelher look than moft of this age have at fifty ; but he 

 is lame, and goes from houfe to houfe upon crutches. I afked 

 how he got his lamenefs. He told me he was one of the Duke ot 

 Cumberland's baggage-men in the year 1745 ; had been with him 

 about three months; and, during all that time, had never been under 

 a roof, but had flept in the fields, with no other protedion from the 

 w^eather but his cart above him. He got his lamenefs, he faid, by 

 one exceeding bad nighi of violent rain in which he lay out, about 

 the lime of the battle ofCulloden. I afked him how he was the next 

 day ? He faid, Very well ; and continued fo all the while he was 

 with the Duke, which v.-as above a month ; but, after he came 

 home, and began to lie in his bed, and to live as clofe and warm as 

 he ufed to do, he was fcized with a fever, which Lifted more than a 

 month, and ended in the lamenefs I faw. I afl^cd him, Whether 

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