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egg, which I eat by the light of a lamp filled with 

 stinking oil. The one pair of sheets I seized upon 

 to my own share, and my servants made them- 

 selves as good beds as they could upon the floor 

 with great coats and travelling mantles. It was 

 on Wednesday night, that after the fatigue of 

 crossing Mount Diablo, " myself I unfatigued " in 

 this delectable retreat, which seemed to have been 

 established upon principles diametrically opposite 

 to those of Shenstone's. On Thursday I slept at 

 Rio JBueno, on Friday at Montego Bay, passed Sa- 

 turday at Anchovy estate (Mr. Plummer's), and 

 was very glad, on Sunday the 22d, to find myself 

 once more quietly established at Cornwall, fully 

 determined to leave it no more, till I leave it on 

 my return to England. The lady, who had died so 

 lately at Kingston, had arrived not long before in 

 a vessel, both the crew and passengers of which 

 landed (to all appearance) in perfect health after 

 a favourable passage from England. Of course, 

 they soon dispersed in different directions ; yet 

 almost all of them were attacked nearly at the 

 same period by the fever, which seemed to have a 

 particular commission to search out such persons 

 as had arrived by that particular ship, at however 

 remote a distance they might be from each other. 



March 29. (Sunday.) 

 This morning (without either fault or accident) 

 a young, strong, healthy woman miscarried of an 



