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covered fufficiently not only to walk without difficulty, 

 but to purfue his ufual exercife on horfeback. 



The year 1796 gave to the world his " Account of the 

 pariQies of Whitford and Holywell." The infirmities of 

 nature now began to {hew themlelves more evidently. The 

 lofs of a friend and neighbor, the worthy Sir Roger Mojlyny 

 the fubfequent diftradtions of the county of Flint by jarring 

 politics, the melancholy fituation of public affairs, the 

 progrefs of Gallic barbarifm, which threatened to overturn 

 all inftitutions focial and facred, operated too forcibly on a 

 mind of the acuteft feeling and moft exquifite fenfibility. 

 Mental agitation affe6led the corporeal fyflem; a difficulty 

 of breathing, a cough, and other pulmonary affedlions in- 

 duced him to apply for medical aid, and he received from 

 his friend Dr. Haygarth^ then refident at Cheftsr, all the 

 affiftance that art could give. Confiderabie difcharges of 

 blood from the nofe increafed the alarming fymptoms; flill 

 the energy of his m.ind fuflained itfelf; he continued his 

 literary purfuits, and employed his leifure hours, during the 



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