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XXIII. ExtraB of a Letter from Mr . Alexander Small, 
Surgeon to the Train of Artillery at Minorca, to Sir 
John Pringle, Bart. P. R. S . Dated St. Philip’s, Aug. 
8 , 1775 - 
R ' T BEG leave to give you this trouble, and to 
add fome conjectures, which may be a kind 
of addition to Dr. cleghorn’s Account of this IflancL 
I live near the Glacis, and the artillery men are conllantly 
lodged in the fquare within the cattle. A little beyond 
the fquare is our hofpital. My attendance at thefe two 
places gives me no more than a falutary exercife. The 
artificers in the civil branch of the ordnance, who are 
under my care, live near me in the remains of the town 
of St. Philip. I call them remains, becaufe many of the 
houfes were dettroyed during the late tiege, and many 
tince; it being determined, that the town thall be re- 
moved to a greater diftance from the cattle . A new fpot 
is accordingly marked out near Englifh Cove, on the tide 
of the harbour; and barracks for two regiments, together 
with fome houfes, are already built. The new as well 
the old town are built in a very dry tituation, on a folid 
rock, on which there is not a drop of ftagnating water, 
nor is there any near the furface of the earth ; for the 
w r ater the inhabitants have for ufe, is either rain-water 
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