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not been known, that the river Eden was ever fo low 
at this place, by a foot, in the dry eft fummer. The 
water continued in this ftate, till about eleven o’clock 
of the morning of the 29th, and then gradually in*- 
creafed (no rain or fnow falling) till about one in the 
afternoon, by which time it had rifen about a foot 
perpendicular. 
N. B. The trouts in general were Email, the lam- 
preys about ten inches or a foot long. 
I fhall only obferve to your Lordfhip, that there 
was a moft intenfe froft that night, and a ftrong wind 
varying from the North-eaft to the South-eaft ; -'and 
that the river runs here from South.weft to Notth- 
caft, 
I am, 
my Lord, 
your Lordlliip s 
r . 
moft obedient humble fervant. 
Aimathwaite Caftle., 
Jan. 4, 1763. 
William Milbourne* 
] J. ’ ! * \ 
V. An 
