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On Saturday evening, Saunders Dickie, the Irvine post that

this letter was from the Doctor, ith it hih the distance is more than two miles, but

Saunders, in addition to the custoe, had

a dra wet, Mr Micklewha any of the parishioners in the churchyard of

the Doctor's safe arrival, so that when he read out the request to return

thanks (for he was not only school-master and session-clerk, but also

precentor), there was a ation, and the greatest curiosity was excited to knohat the

dangers were, from which their worthy pastor and his whole fae to London; so that, when the service

was over, the elders adjourned to the session-house to hear the letter

read; and many of the heads of families, and other respectable

parishioners, were ad, who all