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about 8 p.jn. Dr^Gusta"us Brown of Port Tobacco, Md., arrived soon after, Washington was given calomel and bled again.
Lear, in a letter to his mother,, said:
4‘His distress through the day ■was extreme but not a groan or a • complaint escaped him. With the most perfect resignation and in full possession of his reason to the last moment, he gave up his life. ‘ “He was fully-sensible of his approaching dissolution and he frequently told the physicians that their efforts would be in vain.” ' \ ?;, .
About 4:30 in the afternoon Washington said to Lear: “I find I am going. My breath cannot , last long. I believed from the first the disorder would prove fatal. Arrange and record all my lath military letters and papers.”
At >6 o’clock he said to his old friend," Dr. Craik: “Doctor, 1 die hard but I am not afraid to go.
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