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I have spent all my spare hours amongst them for the last 

 two or three weeks, I am only able to give a scrap here and there. 

 Mr. Otley told me the secret of all this industry. He said, 

 " I early adopted your grandfather's habit, of never indulging in a 

 second sleep, and I continued it with the best results tUl extreme 

 old age caused me to indulge in a second nap." Mr. Crosthwaite' 

 often commenced his journal at three, four, or five o'clock in the 

 morning, and consequently he had frequendy done a deal of work 

 before most people were astir. But, Peter wTote a book. " O ! 

 that mine adversary had WTitten a book ! " said the patriarch Job. 

 I do not know whether friends or foes knew much about it ; but, 

 during the twelve years he was at BIyth, he made health a study. 

 In the year 1775, he published a work of 215 pages, entitled " The 

 Ensign of Peace," " showing how the health both of body and 

 mind, may be preserved, and even revived by the mild and 

 attennuating power of a most valuable and cheap medicine. Its 

 singular and most excellent property is to subdue the flesh to the 

 will of the spirit, by which means mankind may enjoy a state of 

 temperance instead of intemperance, and a state of virtue instead 

 of vice. The continued use of this medicine eradicates most 

 diseases, and is seriously recommended to the people of this island. 

 By a Friendly Traveller. London : printed for J. Wilkie, No. 71, 

 St. Paul's Church Yard, 1775." 



Five hundred copies were struck off at Newcastle-on-Tyne. 

 After going into the whole subject of temperance, exercise of the 

 passions, sleep, intemperance, lust, tyranny, war, duelling, pride, 

 revenge, ingratitude, quanels, gaming, injustice, justice, faith, vice, 

 virtue, and magnanimity, he recommends his medicine in the 

 following words : — "The name of this medicine which I am about to 

 recommend the world is Water, and the purer the better. It is to 

 be applied externally and internally to the body. The external 

 application is by washing every part of the surface of the body 

 with it, from the crown of the head to the soles of the feet, in its 

 natural state in the warmth of summer, but in high latitudes in 

 autumn, winter, and spring, its cold may be so far removed by the 

 action of fire as not to make it too disagreeable when it comes in 



