*
* In one of his manuscript Diaries, there is the following
entry, which marks his curious minute attention: 'July 26,
1768. I shaved my nail by accident in whetting the knife,
about an eighth of an inch from the bottom, and about a
fourth from the top. This I measure that I may know the
growth of nails; the whole is about five eighths of an
inch.'
Another of the same kind appears, 'Aug. 7, 1779, Partem
brachii dextri carpo proximum et cutem pectoris circa
mamillam dextram rasi, ut notum fieret quanto temporis pili
renovarentur.'
And, 'Aug. 15, 1773. I cut from the vine 41 leaves, which
weighed five oz. and a half, and eight scruples:--I lay them
upon my bookcase, to see what weight they will lose by
drying.'--BOSWELL.
My friend Colonel James Stuart, second son of the Earl of Bute, who had
distinguished himself as a good officer of the Bedfordshire militia,
had taken a publick-spirited resolution to serve his country in its
difficulties, by raising a regular regiment, and taking the command of
it himself.
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