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mealured 5 feet 6 inches, and round the belly 6 
feet 1 1 inches. His arm in the middle of it was 2 
feet 2 inches about, and his leg 2 feet 8 inches. 
He had always a good appetite, and, when a youth, 
ufed to eat fomewhat remarkably j but of late years, 
though he continued to eat heartily, and with a good 
relifh, yet he did not eat more in quantity than many 
other men, who, we fay, have good domachs. 
As to drink, though he did not take any liquor 
to an intoxicating degree, yet perhaps upon the 
whole he drank more, than might have been ad- 
vifeable to a man of his very corpulent difpofition. 
When he was a very young man, he was fond of 
ale and old drong beer ; but for fome years pad his 
chief liquor was fmall beer, of which he commonly 
drank about a gallon in a day. In other liquors he 
was extremely moderate, when by himfelf, fome- 
times drinking half a pint of wine after dinner, or a 
little punch, and feldom exceeding his quantity; 
but when he was in company, he did not confine 
himfelf to fo fmall an allowance. 
He enjoyed for the mod part all his life as good 
health as any man, except that in the lad 3 years, 
he was two or three times feized with an inflamma- 
tion in his leg, attended with a little fever ; and every 
time with fuch a tendency to mortification, as to 
make it neceflary to fcarify the part. But by the 
help of fcarification and fomentations, bleeding largely 
once or twice in the arm, and purging, he was al- 
ways foon relieved. I fay bleeding largely, for it was 
always the cudom with him, to have not lefs than 
two pounds of blood taken away at a time. And he 
was 
