318 DR DAVY ON AN UNUSUAL DROUGHT IN THE LAKE DISTRICT. 
adverse seasons, and resulting in scarcity of food and an excessive mortality, seem 
specially deserving of attention, being equally applicable to the human race—e. ., 
our army in the Crimea, during the first winter, under the same circumstances— 
and to brute animals, and may help to account for the extinction of races or 
species. 
Lesxetu How, Ampuesipu, April 9, 1860. 

