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robin, blackbird, thrush, and goldfinch; but, 

 alas! the thing at Westminster has, in like 

 'manner, the name of parliament, and speaks the 

 voice of the people, whom it pretends to repre 

 sent, in much about the same degree that the 

 black-bird here speaks the voice of its name 

 sake in England. 



. 23. Of health, I have not yet spoken, and, 

 though it will be a subject of remark in another 

 part of my work, it is a matter of too deep inte 

 rest to be wholly passed over here. In the first 

 place, as to myself, I have always had excellent 

 health; but, during a year, in England, I used 

 to have a cold or two; -a trifling sore throat; or 

 something in that way. Here, 1 have neither, 

 though I was more than two months of the 

 winter travelling about, and sleeping in different 

 beds. My family have been more healthy than 

 in England, though, indeed, there has seldom 

 been any serious illness in it. We have had 

 but one visit from any Doctor. Thus much, for 

 the present, on this subject. 1 said, in the 

 second Register I sent home, that this climate 

 was not so good as that of England. Experi 

 ence, observation, a careful attention to real 

 facts, have convinced me that it is, upon the 

 whole, a better climate ; though I tremble lest 

 the tools of the Borough mongers should cite 

 this as a new and most flagrant instance of incon 

 sistency. England is ray country, and to Eng- 



