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sions innumerable and beautiful to "falls of rivers" and 

 "minor cascades," "pleasant roads," "romantic paths," 

 "hunting grounds," "trout streams," "grouse roosts;" in 

 short, all that men want or pray for, sick or well, including, 

 as climax, the great Falls of Niagara. In that beautiful 

 region of extreme Western New York and Northwestern 

 Pennsylvania he discovers a desideratum long sought, a 

 great alpine sanitary resort for the sick, above the malarial 

 plain, and possessed of all desirable physical prerequisites 

 and climatal elements for the transformation and rejuven- 

 escence of the diseased, exhausted, and weary laden. 



And here the statement may be made, that the whole range 

 of knobs of the Alleghany Mountain in Central Pennsyl- 

 vania is several hundred feet above this line of malaria, as 

 indicated by Dr. Drake, and possesses all the advantages 

 enumerated as belonging to the Chautauque Lake region, 

 which he indeed affirms is but a " salient terrace, or pro- 

 jecting table-land of the Appalachian Mountains." Being a 

 degree farther south, and a thousand feet higher, the Penn- 

 sylvania Alleghany combines all the physical elements, and 

 greater sanitary advantages, than the plateau described by 

 Dr. Drake. It also extends above the line of "alpine cli- 

 , mate," as established by Dr. Lombard, which, at latitude 40 

 north, is 2000 feet above the level of the sea. 



Thus the illustrious Drake, who had studied with zeal and 

 genius for thirty years the whole climatal relations of the 

 great valley and its elevated boundary lines, or geographical 

 rim, and had hunted a healing (asylum) retreat for its sick, 



cian. As there is "poetry in man and every object that surrounds 

 him," and as the chief end of the doctor is to study man and cure 

 him perpetually, who of the elect of heaven has a better right, with 

 star-woven toga, to walk the heights of Parnassus? Dr. Camillo 

 Brunori, the " Physician a Poet," under the divine afflatus, indited 

 lovely idyls on purgatives, celestial rhymes on blisters, and "one 

 hundred and seventy-two sonnets on all Diseases, Drugs, and Parts of 

 the Body, Functions, and curative means." Honor to the doctor- 

 poet ! all honor to Camillo the brave ! 



