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Our Army in Canada is daily reducing, about three hundred of the Troops raised in Connecticut having passed here within a few Days, So that I believe not more than 650, or 700, from that Colony are left. From the Different New York Regiments about fourty are also lately come away. An unhappy Home sickness prevails, those mentioned above, all came down Invalids, Not one willing to reengage for the Winter Service, and unable to get any Work done by them, I discharged them en Groupe ー Of all the Specificks ever invented for any there is none So Efficacious as a Discharge for this prevailing Disorder, No sooner was it administered, but it perfected the Cure of Nine out of ten, Who refusing to wait for Boats to go by the Way ofFort George, flung their heavy Packs, crossed the Lake at this Place & undertook a March of two hundred Miles, [with] the greatest good Will & Alacrity.