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Article MONTHLY CHRONICLE. ← Page 2 of 3 →
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Monthly Chronicle.
And there are not wanting cases of persons so totallv deserted , as to be withotliS a human Being to hand them a drink of wat . T . Parents have deserted th"lr children—children their parents—husbands their wives—and wives their husbands . It is probably not exaggeration to suppose that a fourth or a fifth of the whale of the persons who have died , have been sacrificed through the consternation of those who ought to have taken care of them . Since the early terrors have been dispelled , these desertions have become rare . Unfortunatelwe have hadfor a continuance of time series of weather
y , , a uncommonly favourable to this disorder . For above two months we have hardly had any rain ; and during that time , there have not been above ten or twelve cool days . It is worthy of particular attention , that the degree of mortality has depended greatly on the degree of heat . On very sultry clavs , the number of deaths has been much greater than on cool days . A fail of rain last night , accompanied with cold weather , which continues ' this day , has made a most ' flattering change in the prospects of this cityThe discordant inions and
. op practices of the gentlemen of the faculty have been a great means ' of destroying the confidence of the public in their prescriptions . Dr . RUSH and some other ^ Physicians , have strongly advised bleeding , and purges of calomel and jalap . They have been very successful . Others have rested their hopes principally on the cold bath , bark , generous living , and a few occasional glasses of old Madeira ^
To NATURALISTS . WHAT cause can be assigned , why the river Isis ( as far as it is so called , ) should ; in hard frost ,. freeze at the bottom lirst ? it evidently appeariag-, in a thaw , that large pieces of ice rise from the bottom , and bring whatever adheres , stones , sticks , mud , & c . Why shall every seventh wave , at sea , ( supposing it to be a little ruffled , ) ba in general largerand break than the
, more jest ? When a hare is near dying , towards the end of achate , why shall her scent lay less strong than at the beginning ? Lately were committed to Norwich Castle by Sir John-Fenn , ofEastDere-i ham , Kent , three persons who have been-travelling about the country tendering and uttering in payment counterfeit money , resembling the half-crown pieces of King William , all having iluvdate of 1697 : a large quantity of these was found in their neatl
possession , y folded up in small paper parcels . General Murray was a few nights ago stopped on the road between . Grantham and Greelham , by a single footpad : on his opening the door of the carriage , the General made a lunge at him with a large knife , which knocked the pistol from his hand ; the villain then ran off , and the General leaping from his carnage pursued him , but owing to the darkness of the night , without success . JVbv . 13 . This dayabouta quarter before nine o ' clockthe following male
, , , - factors were brought out of Newgale , and executed on the platform facing the ' Lebtors ' -door , in the Old-Bailey , according to their sentence , viz . James Randal , John Saville Wright , and Samuel Young ; the ' two first behaved very penitently , but Young denied the fact he . was about to suffer for , till tlie very moment of his execution . EXTRAORDINARY FOECUNDITY ,
A farmer at Empingham , in Rutlandshire , has now a sow , 16 years and a quarter old , which at 19 litters has brought forth 323 pigs ; she has several times had 10 at a litter , and once 21 : the sow has now a lot of young pigs in good condition .
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Monthly Chronicle.
And there are not wanting cases of persons so totallv deserted , as to be withotliS a human Being to hand them a drink of wat . T . Parents have deserted th"lr children—children their parents—husbands their wives—and wives their husbands . It is probably not exaggeration to suppose that a fourth or a fifth of the whale of the persons who have died , have been sacrificed through the consternation of those who ought to have taken care of them . Since the early terrors have been dispelled , these desertions have become rare . Unfortunatelwe have hadfor a continuance of time series of weather
y , , a uncommonly favourable to this disorder . For above two months we have hardly had any rain ; and during that time , there have not been above ten or twelve cool days . It is worthy of particular attention , that the degree of mortality has depended greatly on the degree of heat . On very sultry clavs , the number of deaths has been much greater than on cool days . A fail of rain last night , accompanied with cold weather , which continues ' this day , has made a most ' flattering change in the prospects of this cityThe discordant inions and
. op practices of the gentlemen of the faculty have been a great means ' of destroying the confidence of the public in their prescriptions . Dr . RUSH and some other ^ Physicians , have strongly advised bleeding , and purges of calomel and jalap . They have been very successful . Others have rested their hopes principally on the cold bath , bark , generous living , and a few occasional glasses of old Madeira ^
To NATURALISTS . WHAT cause can be assigned , why the river Isis ( as far as it is so called , ) should ; in hard frost ,. freeze at the bottom lirst ? it evidently appeariag-, in a thaw , that large pieces of ice rise from the bottom , and bring whatever adheres , stones , sticks , mud , & c . Why shall every seventh wave , at sea , ( supposing it to be a little ruffled , ) ba in general largerand break than the
, more jest ? When a hare is near dying , towards the end of achate , why shall her scent lay less strong than at the beginning ? Lately were committed to Norwich Castle by Sir John-Fenn , ofEastDere-i ham , Kent , three persons who have been-travelling about the country tendering and uttering in payment counterfeit money , resembling the half-crown pieces of King William , all having iluvdate of 1697 : a large quantity of these was found in their neatl
possession , y folded up in small paper parcels . General Murray was a few nights ago stopped on the road between . Grantham and Greelham , by a single footpad : on his opening the door of the carriage , the General made a lunge at him with a large knife , which knocked the pistol from his hand ; the villain then ran off , and the General leaping from his carnage pursued him , but owing to the darkness of the night , without success . JVbv . 13 . This dayabouta quarter before nine o ' clockthe following male
, , , - factors were brought out of Newgale , and executed on the platform facing the ' Lebtors ' -door , in the Old-Bailey , according to their sentence , viz . James Randal , John Saville Wright , and Samuel Young ; the ' two first behaved very penitently , but Young denied the fact he . was about to suffer for , till tlie very moment of his execution . EXTRAORDINARY FOECUNDITY ,
A farmer at Empingham , in Rutlandshire , has now a sow , 16 years and a quarter old , which at 19 litters has brought forth 323 pigs ; she has several times had 10 at a litter , and once 21 : the sow has now a lot of young pigs in good condition .