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these latter have dropped their bloom, all is gone 

 in the flowery way. No shephercVs rose, no honey- 

 suckle, none of that endless variety of beauties that 

 decorate the hedges and the meadows in England. 

 "No daisies, no primroses, no cowslips, no blue-bells, 

 no daffodils, which, as if it were not enough for 

 them to charm the sight and the smell, must have 

 names, too, to delight the ear. All these are 

 wanting in America. Here are, indeed, birds 

 which bear the name of robin, black-bird, thrush 

 and gold-finch ; but, alas ! the thing at Westmin- 

 ster has, in like manner the name of parliament, 

 which speaks the voice of the people, whom it 

 pretends to represent, 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 tritling 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 health}^ than in Eng- 

 land, though, indeed, tfciere 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. I said, in the second Register I sent 

 home, that this climate was not so good as thai of 

 England. Experience, observation, a careful at- 

 tention to real facts, have convinced me that it is, 

 iipo7i the whole, a better climate ; though I tremble 

 lest the tools of the Boroughmongers should cite 

 this as a new and most flagrant proof of my incon- 

 sistency. England is my country', and to England 

 I shall return. I like it best, and shall always 



