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Novr. 1770.   Batavia

Remaind ever after on the western bord, the people here however told us that it did not commonly shift so suddenly, & were loth to beleive that the westerly winds were realy set in for several days after.

Dr Solander was recovered enough to be able to walk about the house, but gatherd strengh very slowly, Myself was given to understand, that curing my ague was of very little consequence while the cause remaind in the badness of the air, the Physician however bled me & gave me frequent gentle purges, which he told me would make the attacks less violent, as was realy the case, they came generaly about the hour of 2 or 3 in the afternoon, a time when every body in these climates is asleep, & by 4 or 5. I generaly had

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