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As Nassau's position is isolated, and so far removed from the 

 cities of the north, with only one weekly line of steamers, and 

 no telegraph, as yet, to connect it with the States, it is not the 

 place one would ordinarily select in which to be very sick, and 

 many better places nearer home can be found in which to die. 

 A physician whom we met in Nassau, in 1879, said to us: "It 

 costs a thousand dollars to die here. In one instance, last year, 

 (1878,) $300 dollars was paid for the use of a small building as 

 a dead house, and other charges were in proportion." If one is 

 dangerously sick, there is no place for him like home, with its 

 comforts and unbought sympathies. 



To those who are weak, debilitated, over-worked and run down, 

 whose feeble hold on life is constantly endangered by sudden 

 fluctuations of temperature, and the severe storms and cold winds 

 of the north, the warm and beautiful Islands of Indolence and 

 Sensuous Repose, attract with flattering promises of permanent 

 benefit. New leases of life are doubtless accessible to many 

 such in Nassau. But Ave do not believe that either shore of the 

 Mediterranean Sea, the banks of the Nile, Madeira, Florida, or 

 any Isle of Unending Summer, can furnish desirable homes for 

 white people in health. We have only to compare the natives 

 of the States north of the old Mason's and Dixon's line (includ- 

 ing cold and bleak New England), and their works, with ''the 

 children of the sun " and their neglected opportunities, to be sat- 

 isfied on this point. The cold north wind stimulates, braces 

 and builds up. Every blast, fearlessly and boldly breasted, in- 

 vigorates the healthy body, enriches the blood, and gives vitali- 

 zing and enduring strength and power to the mental and moral 

 forces. In the temperate zone the mental, moral and physical 

 powers of man reach their highest development. Frost is an 

 essential factor in the problem of civilization. All human pro- 

 gress is bottomed upon ice. The great and profound truths, the 



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