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under exposure to a violent wind, accompanied 

 by rain, such as I hope you will never be 

 exposed to, even on my hardening system. I 

 will relate to you one instance, a well authen- 

 ticated one, which occurred only a few years 

 ago in the persons of two men and a boy be- 

 longing to Kentmere, who went thence to fish 

 in some of the mountain tarns. The time was 

 towards the fall, early in November. Not re- 

 turning, their friends became alarmed, and a 

 search was made for them, the people of the 

 country all round joining in it, according to 

 custom. When hope of finding them was 

 nearly given up, they were discovered all three 

 together under the shelter of a rock ; the bodies 

 of the men resting in a sitting posture, that of 

 the boy on the knee of one of the men, with a 

 bit of bread in his hand all three wet and cold, 

 and stark dead, without any appearance of bodily 

 hurt. They were considered storm-stricken ; 

 overtaken, as it was known they had been, 

 by a violent gale accompanied by heavy rain. 



AMICUS. I can readily believe in the loss 

 of life under such circumstances, even though 

 the temperature of the air might have been 

 many degrees above the freezing point. A 



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