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fource of unhealthfulnefs. There are few diforders which cannot 

 be diredly traced up to fome artificial caufe ; to fome intemperance, 

 to fome negled, to fome excefs, either of luxury or penury, in the 

 fuffering fubjed. Manufadures, in their kind, unwholefome ; 

 induftry exerted beyond its proper limits; irregularity in food or 

 fermented liquors; illicit amours; colds, the confequence of folly 

 or inattention; excefs or deficiency of proper exercife ; anxiety 

 and fretfulnefs of mind ; together with the copious lift of cafual- 

 ties, afford to the phyfician of this country, the caufes, and expla- 

 nation, of almoft all its diforders. 



From its peculiar falubrity the natives of this ifland arc cele- 

 brated through Europe for juft fymmetry of proportion, and an 

 athletic frame ; becaufe, from earlieft infancy to manhood, a check 

 is rarely given to the progreflive encreafe of animal ftrength, or 

 the natural and appropriate forms of an undifeafed body. From 

 the fame Hygeian fource flow thofe ardent paflions, thofe exu- 

 berant ftreams of animal fpirits, which render our natives always 

 chearful, oftentimes turbulent and boifterous, the ufual confequences 

 of uninterrupted health and a vigorous conftitution. Hence wild 

 adventure, perfonal courage, impetuofity of purfuit, inattention to 

 confequences, and improvidence of difpofition, become the cha- 

 raderiftic features of minds, feldom under the influence of that 

 anxiety, which, flying from the prefent moment and its enjoy- 

 ments, watches for futurity, and pants after remote felicity, 



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