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such a day's journey, feels far less fatigue than when his 

 exercise is without excitement, and he becomes satisfied 

 that the means he is employing answers the purpose in- 

 tended, and therefore, instead of being discouraged, he 

 is filled with the hope of a final, and speedy recovery. 



A highly intelligent female invalid, whose circumstan- 

 ces allowed her to select the best means of improving 

 her health ; employed for a considerable time, daily ex- 

 ercise, either on horseback, or in an open carriage, in the 

 form of little excursions from her residence. From this 

 method however, and for the reasons above stated, she 

 obtained little else than fatigue, listlessness, and discour- 

 agement. Having relinquished it, therefore, for a jour- 

 ney through a fine country, at a good season of the year, 

 she returned so much improved, as to astonish her friends, 

 as well as herself, that such a change could have been 

 effected in so short a period : and nearly every reader 

 will no doubt remember similar cases, which have come 

 within his own knowledge. 



Exciting exercise absolutely necessary to the studious. 

 And now, in closing this part of our subject, we cannot 

 but desire to impress it upon the minds of those into 

 whose hands this volume may fall, and who are destined 

 to spend their lives in literary pursuits, or in clerical la- 

 bors, that an uninterrupted, and long continued course 

 of study, or of ministerial duties, without exciting relax- 

 ation, is from the very organization of our systems, in 

 most cases, absolutely impossible. The kind of exercise 

 must of course depend on the choice, or taste, or muscu- 

 lar powers of the individual, only to answer any good 

 purpose, as a restorative means, it must be exciting to 

 the brain, and if possible, be repeated every day, or at 

 least every two or three days, until the equilibrium of the 

 system is restored, and when this is done, must be con- 

 tinued habitually in order to insure a permanency of 

 good health. 



The above considerations and remarks, with respect 

 to exercise in adults, although they do not apply imme- 

 diately to youth, for whose instruction this work is chief- 

 ly intended, still it is hoped will not be deemed entirely 

 out of place, since it is highly important that the rising 



