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My Lord Shelburne, and all his family, join in 
all poffible refpe&s with 
Your Lordlhip’s 
Mod: obedient, 
and mod: humble Servant, 
William Henry. 
* The CASE of William Carey. 
H E was bom in an idand in Lough Melvill, a 
large lake in the northern point of the county 
of Leitrim in Ireland, and has continued therein, or 
in the adjacent lands, ever dnce. 
He was bred up to work as a labourer, and con- 
tinued in very good health from his birth until two 
years ago. About that time he fird felt an unufual 
pain in his right wrid, which in Augud 1 7 5 '7 began 
to fwell : this obliged him to ceafe from his ufual 
labour. In the fpace of a month more, this fwelling 
grew into an hardnefs, like to a bony fubdance ; and 
continually fhooting on, in December reached up as 
far as the elbow ; all the mufcles continually grow- 
ing into a bony fubdance, and dilating fo, that his 
wrid and arm are twice as thick and broad as in the 
beginning. About the fpace of a week after the 
pain began in his right wrid, he was feized with the 
like pain and fwelling in the left wrid. This has 
proceeded in all refpedls in the fame manner as in 
his right arm. The whole fubdance of each arm, 
from the elbow down to the wrids, feels as if it 
were one folid bone. 
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