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The Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, a canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: "In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed." Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal is in Victorian Books.
78th Regiment. The 78th and 86th Regiments arrived from England in August 1842. The first was sent to Poona for twelve months, and then to Kurrachee. There, in the quarter ending December 1843, it lost forty-three men, chiefly from fever and dysentery. In the third quarter of 1844, the regiment, divided betwixt Sukkiir and Hydrabad, on the Indus, lost 231 men, — 141 from remittent fever, the remainder from bowel complaints chiefly. In the last quarter of 1845, the 78th had been removed to Bombay, and lost 276 men, the predominant cause being, not fever, as in the third quarter, but acute and chronic dysentery, to which 244 of the deaths were referred, and six more to diarrmhea, leaving only sixteen for all other diseases. The regiment has been stationed at Belgaum since December 1847, and has there enjoyed excellent health.