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I would have jou, therefore, if bj any means you can be 

 gpared in London, go to one of the neighbouring coasts, 

 and take sufficient time to recover your strength. You 

 may pitch upon some pleasant place, where there will be 

 sufficient company to amuse you, and not so much as to 

 create bustle, and make a toil of reflection, and turn re- 

 tirement into riot. Since you must be as sensible as I 

 am, that this is necessary for your health, I shall feel 

 assured, if you do not go, that I am the cause, a con- 

 sideration I would gladly spare myself. 



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j TO HIS BROTHER NEVILLE. 



I Kottingham, June 1805. 



My dear Brother, 



I wrote you a long letter from Winteringham some 

 time ago, which I now apprehend you have never re- 

 ceived, or, if you have, some more important concerns 

 have occupied your time than writing to me on general 

 subjects. Feeling, however, rather weary to-night, I 

 have determined to send this sheet to you, as a proof 

 that if I am not a punctual, I am certainly far from a 

 ceremonious correspondent. 



Our adventure on the Humber you should have learnt 

 from K. Swann, who, with much minuteness, filled up 

 three sides of a letter to his friend with the account. 

 The matter was simply this : he. Almond, and myself, 

 made an excursion about twelve or fourteen miles up the 

 Humber ; on our return ran aground, were left by the 

 tide on a sand-bank, and were obliged to remain sis 

 hours in an open boat, exposed to a heavy rain, high 

 wind, and piercing cold, until the tide rose, when two 

 men brought a boat to our assistance. We got home 

 about twelve o'clock at night ; no evil consequences en- 

 sued, owing to our using every exertion we could think 

 of to keep warmth in our bodies. 



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