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206] ANNUAL REGISTER
"From this comparison it appears with how much truth great cities have been called the graves of mankind. It must also convince all who consider it, that it is by no means strictly proper to consider our diseases as the original intention of nature. There are, without doubt, in general, our own creation. Were there a country, where the inhabitants led lives entirely natural and virtuous, few of them would die without measuring out the whole period of present existence allotted them; pain and distempers would be unknown among them; and the dismission of death would come upon them like a sleep, in consequence of no other cause than gradual and unavoidable decay. Let us then, instead of charging our Maker with our miseries, learn more to accuse and reproach ourselves.
"The reasons of the baleful influence of great towns, as it has been now exhibited, are plainly, first, the irregular modes of life, the luxuries, debaucheries, and pernicious customs, which prevail more in towns than in the country. Secondly, the foulness of the air in towns, occasioned by uncleanliness, smoak, the perspiration and breath of the inhabitants, and putrid steams from drains, and kennels and common-sewers. It is in particular well known that air, spoiled by breathing, is rendered so noxious as to kill instantaneously any animal that is put into it. There must be causes in nature, continually operating, which restore the air after being thus spoiled. But in towns it is, probably, consumed faster than it can be adequately restored; and the larger the town is, or the more the inhabitants are crouded together, the more this inconvenience must take place."
It appears farther, "that married women live longer than single women;" for, of equal numbers of single and married women, between fifteen and twenty-five, more of the former die than of the latter, in the proportion of two to one. One reason of this difference may be, that the women who marry are a selected body, consisting of the more healthy and vigorous part of the sex. But this, our author apprehends, is not the only reason; for it may be expected that in this, as well as in all other instances, the consequences of following nature must be favourable.
A List of Knights of the Bath, at the Installation, June 15, 1772, with the dates of their election.
|1760 George III. Sovereign| His R.H. the Bp. of Osnabrugh 1767|
|1725 Earl of Breadalbine| - Earl of Inchiquin - - 1725|
|1744 Viscount Fitzwilliam| - Sir Thomas Whitmore - - 1744|
|1744 Sir Henry Calthorpe| - Sir Edward Hawke - - 1747|
|1749 Sir John Mordaunt| - Earl of Mexborough - - 1749|
|1752 Lord Onslow| - - Sir Edward Walpole - - 1753|
|1753 Lord Beaulieu| - - Lord Carysfort - - - 1761|
|1761 Sir Joseph Yorke| - - Sir James Gray - - - 1771|
Sir
|1761 Sir W.B. Proctor, Bart. Sir John Gibbons, Bart. - - 1761|
|1761 Sir George Pococke - Sir Jeffrey Amherft - - 1761|
|1761 Sir John Griffin Griffin Sir Charles Frederick - - 1761|
|1761 Sir George Warren - Sir Charles Saunders - - 1761|
|1763 Earl of Bellamont - Lord Clive - - - 1764|
|1764 Sir Wiliam Draper - Sir Horatio Mann - - 1768|
|1770 Sir John Lindfay - - Sir John Moore, Bart. - - 1770|
|1771 Sir Charles Montague Sir William Lynch - - 1771|
|1771 Sir Ralph Payne - - Sir Eyre Coote - - - 1771|
|1772 Sir Cha. Hotham, Bart. Sir William Hamilton - - 1772|
|1772 Sir Robert Murray Keith Sir George Macartney - - 1772|
Dr. John Thomas, Dean of the Order, July 2, 1768.
Thomas Grey Cullum, Efq; Bath King at Arms, 1771.
Johm Suffield Brown, Efq. Genealogift of the Order,1757.
William Whitehead, Efq; Regifter and Secretary, 1756.
Account of an extraordinary Model of a Bridge.
I Herewith send you the exact dimensions(reduced to English measure) of a wooden covered bridge of one arch, which is intended to be built over the river Foyle, at Londonderry, in Ireland,(which I have just seen in its way from Switzerland).
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| | | | |Eng.feet.|In.|
|Length|-|-|-|958| |
|Breadth of the carriage way|-|-|-|25|6|
|Heighth of the crown of the arch from the water| | |
|69|-|
|Depth of the water at high-water| |-|-|47|8|
|Breadth of the foot-ways| | | |8|6|
|Length of them to their uniting with the carriage-way|-|-|
|245|5|
|Height from the [[?]] to the [[?]]| | |-|42|6|
|Breadth of the whole front|-||-||-||106||3|
The whole is to be covered in, and enlightened by 62 windows on each side. There are 11,734 pieces of wood in this model, and near 4000 Screws. The center of the arch (as has been proved by experiment) will support 900 weight. The architect (who accompanies it) is Mr. John Conrad Altherr, a mason, of the canton of Apentzel. He has with him two of his countrymen, who draw it on a light four-wheeled carriage. They travel about six or eight miles a day, and were about five months coming to England. It is to be in Ireland by the 22d of November. The model is about 19 feet long, being upon a scale of one quarter of an inch to a (German) foot. It is formed on the model of a bridge over the Rhine at Schaffhaufen, in Switzerland, and it is supposed will cost about 19,000L. Essex bridge, Dublin, cost 20,661L. 11s. 4d.
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