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We have had the dried: feafon here I have known; 
thro’ the whole of lad: year, only IQ.705 inches ot 
rain fell; and in the three lad months of this, only 
1.689 inches, including what melted from the great 
fall of fnow on the nth and 12th of February, into 
my receiver : the fnow lay then 9 inches perpendicular, 
upon a level bed in my garden. I am, with great 
refpedt. 
My Lord, 
Your Lorddiip’s much obliged, 
and mod obedient Servant, 
George Carlifle. 
J ohn Hallowday, an out-penfioner of Chellea, 
aged near 80, having entered very young into the 
army, and undergone feveral hardships in the cam- 
paigns under the Duke of Marlborough, upon his return 
to England from Flanders, at the concludon of the 
war, fird perceived a fmall tumor in the right fide of 
the fcrotum and groin. This he carefully concealed, to 
avoid the feoffs of his companions, and lead it might 
be the occafion of his difeharge, which he dreaded, 
and wanted to avoid ; as he found no other inconve- 
nience from it, but what its bulk occafioned, nor ever 
had pain, vomiting, obdrudtions to dools, or any other 
fymptomsof a drangulated hernia. From that time, 
however, it continued to increafe in bulk ; and from 
that, and its weight, grew daily more inconvenient to 
him, infomuch, . that about the year 1725, being 
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