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Mr, hutchini’s Account of 
X. An Account of the Succefs of fame Attempts to jreeze 
Huickftlver , at Albany Fort, in I-Iudfon’s Bay, in the 
Tear 1775: with Obfervations on tbe Dipping-nett, e. 
By Thomas Hutchins, Efquire, in a Letter to Dr. Maty, 
Sec. R. S. 
T O DR. MATY. 
Albany Fort, Hudfon’s Bay, 
g j ^ * Auguft, 28, 1775. 
r. Dec. 21, T HAD made two or three more obfervations 
l775 ' X on the dipping-needle, but a violent fit of 
licknefs, which hath for feme time attended me, and 
the having miflaid many of my papers oblige me to lend 
only thefe few to the Royal Society. I can allure you 
they were made with all poffible circumfpeclion . I ha\ e 
lent home the inftruments by Captain Christopher as 
delired, and inclofe his receipt for them. The meteoro- 
logical remarks have been made at all the places within 
my jurifdi&ion. I am very forry not to be able this year 
to fend home thofe from Albany, becaufe time will not 
permit me to copy them fair, and the ill If ate of my 
health prevents it being done fooner; but they lhall cer- 
tainly be fent next year. The fnow in my receiver 
-during the whole winter was 64^ inches. 
Agreeable 
