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themselves not hearing the Repetition : but what is still 
more remarkable is that tho' it is confind to a small 
Gravel walk, not more than twenty yards in Lengh, it is 
not always in the same place, being sometimes at one part 
and sometimes at the other. The walk is close by the side 
of a semi-circular peice of water, walld in with a small 
Parapet, but I was told by the people there, that the Echo 
was there before that wall was built or water made. 
10. — Went this morn to Bristol to see a very singular 
curiosity which was a woman who had for reasons not 
yet well known been confined since August Last in a deal 
Box which I myself measurd and found the dimensions to 
be Lengh 2 feet 6 inches. Breadth and Depth each one 
foot 4. She was all that time supported by no other 
nourishment than Gritts and water as she herself says^ 
but the tryal of the people who confind her and with whom 
she Lodgd will probably make things much clearer. She is. 
at present a most miserable spectacle having Less flesh upon 
her bones than I could conceive possible to support a Living 
Creature and her knees and hipps forc'd by the smallness of 
the Box so much that she cannot in the Least stir them. 
17. — Went this morn to see the views from Walkden^^ 
[Walton] Lodge and S'' Abraham Elton's Summer house : 
found them very Beautifull as many very different and very 
fine in a small compass of Biding as I ever saw; I mean 
in the Course of the Boad from the Summer house through 
Walkden town to the lodge. The top of the hill on which 
the Summer house stands is marked with Lines of a very 
singular nature, the ruins of [omission] crossing each other 
which are now all but Level with the Ground, of different 
figures, some squares or Polygons, containing from half an 
acre to three or four, and sometimes more : some circular,, 
some of which are very small. What they can have been I 
