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the fire, which coitiforts them, and does 

 them h great deal of good, especially when> 

 after rain, the turnips are very wet. This 

 method, I am certain, prevents many from 

 having the rheumatism* 



Would you like, when yon return from 

 shooting, to he put into a parlour,, as they 

 call it, at an ale-house, in which there has 

 not been a fire lighted for a week ? — I 

 always request the favour that I may be 

 permitted to have a small round table, near 

 the fire, in the kitchen. There I sit and 

 roast myself till I am nearly hot through $ 

 and I am certain that method has pre- 

 served me from disorders and maladies ; 

 particularly from the rheumatism, for I 

 never experienced the smallest attack from 

 it in my life, which is a very singular thing 

 for an officer to assert, who has, for many 

 years, slept under the canopy of heaven, 

 (generally speaking,) and nothing above 

 him but the skies. 



Now, on service, I attribute the blessinet' The sotdier'* 



^ health preser- 



of good health, in America I speak of, to the ^e^'^yfi"- 

 abundant quantity of wood, particularly to 

 the southward, in those unhealthy climates, 



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