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as she was going to bed, used to remark on 

 such an occurrence, in the true spirit of 

 physico- theology, that the rooks were saying 

 their prayers ; and yet this child was much 

 too young to be aware that the scriptures 

 have said of the Deity — that he feedeth 

 the ravens who call upon him/' 



I am, &c. 



LETTER LX. 



TO THE SAME. 



In reading Dr. Huxham^s Ohservationes de 

 Acre, Sec, written at Plymouth, I find by 

 those curious and accurate remarks, which 

 contain an account of the weather from 

 the year 1727 to the year 1748, inclusive, 

 that though there is frequent rain in that 

 district of Devonshire, yet the quantity fall- 

 ing is not great ; and that some years it 

 has been very small : for in 1731 the rain 

 measured only 17^"'^— 266'^'^". and in 1741, 

 20—354; and again in 1743 only 20—908. 



