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Hoping for a continuance of y r pleasing and communi- 

 cative letters, and regretting that I cannot oftener enjoy 

 y r conversation, 



I remain with great esteem 



Y r obliged Servant 



GIL : WHITE.] 



P.S. There fell in the county of Rutland, in three 

 weeks of this present very wet weather, seven inches and 

 a half of rain, which is more than has fallen in any three 

 weeks for these thirty years past in that part of the world. 

 A mean quantity in that county for one year is twenty 

 inches and a half. [My brother in Andalusia makes a very 

 swift progress in discoveries.] 





