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Fly-Fiflring. 



dale, mountain and moor ; can they be of the 

 ordinary dimenfions we have been fo long accuf- 

 tomed to ? furely, moft furely, they muft be morn 

 of their due proportions ? And the cares too that 

 have kept us fb anxious by day, and fleeplefs at 

 night, where are they now ? Borne on the wings 

 of the bracing breeze, or melted away in the 

 charming funfhine ! A total change feems to come 

 over us ; endowed with the new-born ftrength of 

 young giants ; confident we can grapple fuccefT- 

 fully with difficulties, that of late feemed impracti- 

 cable ; buoyant, as a bird on the wing ; whence the 

 marvellous revolution in our feelings, that clothes 

 everything we fee or do in fuch rofeate hues ? 



Health and exercife, good reader, is the magic 

 means by which we can thus climb up far, far 

 above the murky atmofphere of our old aches and 

 pains, and leave for a while this troublefome world 

 of ours behind us. And the road to the one is em- 

 braced, I feel aflured, in great meafure, in the 

 intimate companionmip of the other. 



To put you in the fame way I have fo fuccefT- 

 fully trodden myfelf, of fecuring the moft invaluable 

 of earthly bleffings, is my chief reafon for ven- 

 turing to obtrude my feeble and inexperienced pen 

 on the notice of the public. 



