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was no more fenfible of the lofs of fuch a quantity* 
than another man is of twelve or fourteen ounces. 
He married when he was between twenty-two 
and twenty-three years old, and lived a little more 
than feven years in that date : in which time he had 
five children born, and left his wife with child of 
the fixth, near her time. 
There was an amiable mind in this extraordinary 
overgrown body. He was of a chearful temper, and a 
good-natured man, a kind husband, a tender father, a 
good mader, a fiiendly neighbour, and a very fair 
honed man. So that he was beloved and refpedled 
by all, who knew him, and would have been as 
much lamented by his acquaintance, as any man in 
any dation of life ever was, had it not been, that 
they looked upon him for feveral years as a man, 
who could not live long ; and out of regard and 
compaffion to him, confidered his life as a burthen, 
and death as a happy releafe to him, and fo much 
the more, as he thought fo himfelf, and widied to 
be releafed. 
His lad illnefs, which continued about fourteen 
days, was a miliary fever, as I am well informed by 
the apothecary, who attended him. It began with 
pretty drong inflammatory fymptoms, a very trou- 
blefome cough, great difficulty of breathing, &c. 
and the eruption was extremely violent. For fome 
days he was thought to be relieved in the other 
fymptoms by the eruption : but it feems to be no 
wonder at all, that his conditution was not able to 
druggie through fuch a difeafe, which proves fo fatal 
to many, who appear to be much more fit to grapple 
with it. 
His 
