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the Blue Ridge of Virginia in 1856 ; twice to traverse the 

 Atlantic and portions of the Mediterranean ; and to ascend 

 Mount Bolca, near Verona, Mount Vesuvius^ and Mount 

 Etna, at seventy-two years of age, in 1851. I record these 

 facts, not with any feeling of vanity or pride, but with deep 

 gratitude to God ; and I am influenced more than all by 

 the wish to warn my children, and my children's children, 

 to obey God's physical as well as moral laws, and so re 

 member, if they would enjoy health and long life, that they 

 must not waste their physical powers upon extraneous in 

 dulgences, but must be satisfied with nutritious food, water, 

 or watery fluids and milk for drink, regular and sufficient 

 sleep, and a due regulation of all propensities, physical, 

 moral, and intellectual. With a good conscience and a 

 faithful discharge of duty, which will naturally result from 

 the course which I have sketched, they will pass on agree 

 ably and usefully through life, and may expect, under the 

 influence of religious principles and the hopes which they 

 inspire, to meet death without dismay. 



Resignation of Mr. Andrews. I have kept Mr. An 

 drews in view so long, because his services were of the 

 utmost importance to me during three to four years of 

 feeble or fluctuating health, from 1821 to 1824. During 

 this anxious crisis, he sustained and served me with much 

 ability, and with the zeal of an affectionate son. Without 

 such aid I could hardly have retained my place in the 

 College. He remained with me until my health was re 

 stored; and he has been ever since held by me and my 

 family in grateful remembrance. His chosen profession 

 was the law, in the study of which he had been more or 

 less engaged during his residence with me. In 1825 he 

 resigned his place as assistant in my department, and, soon 

 after, he established himself in Cleveland, Ohio, in his pro 

 fession, having married Miss Ursula Allen, daughter of 

 the late Hon. John Allen of Litchfield, an eminent law- 



