Of the Salubrity of Warm Bathing. 6 1 3 



sees on every side the most enchanting pictures. — 

 everywhere the image of happiness ! 



" If the succession of our ideas be the real measure 

 of life, the rapidity with which they then recur to the 

 memory, and the vigour with which the mind runs 

 over the extended chain of them, would induce a 

 belief that in the two hours of delicious calm that 

 succeeds the bath one has lived a number of years !" 



[This paper is printed from tlie English edition of Rumford's Essays, 

 Vol. III., pp. 419-453-] 



