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tion and conversation of some discreet person is indis- 

 pensable. Such persons as can find unceasing gratifica- 

 tion in beholding a beautiful country, in surveying lofty 

 mountains, and rich vallies, wild and rugged precipices, 

 majestic forests, noble rivers, well cultivated farms, neat 

 villages, thriving and prettily built towns, a never ceas- 

 ing and perpetually varying verdure, and that universal 

 cheerfulness and beauty, that air of contentment and good 

 order, which New- England presents, and who when out- 

 ward objects fail to attract their attention, tan find seren- 

 ity 'within, who having abiuidant resources in their own 

 minds, can in solitude find company, and dwell with de- 

 light on the highest and noblest subjects of contempla- 

 tion, may journey alone. But those, who, when alone, 

 spend a large part of their time in poring over their dis- 

 ease, who are unaccustomed to extensive thought, and 

 find little delight in the great and interesting objects of 

 the natural world, and when called to exercise by them- 

 selves, consider it as a task which they are required to go 

 through, are utterly unfit for such an undertaking. Nei- 

 ther the cold of winter, nor the heat of summer, furnish 

 suitable weather for journeying. From the 10th of May 

 till the 1st of July, and from the 10th of September till 

 the 1st of November, are the best periods of the year. — 

 On returning, the same, or some other exercise, must be 

 resorted to daily. Ten miles riding every day when the 

 weather will permit, is the least which will answer. Un- 

 fortunately it is not perfectly genteel to ride on horseback, 

 especially to take journeys in that manner, but it is alto- 

 gether so, to be cramped up in a close carriage, shut in 

 from the least vievv of the country, and necessitated to in- 

 hale through the day an atmosphere, rendered highly im- 

 pure and offensive by the respiration of ten or a dozen 

 persons. Where daily riding in the manner recommend- 

 ed above cannot be pursued conveniently, digging and 

 hoeing in a garden will prove good substitutes ; or as the 

 patient is able to bear, almost any sort of labour which is 

 customary on a farm. Walking, as it agitates the stom- 

 ach and intestines but little, and if pushed to a considera- 

 ble extent occasions weariness of the limbs, is far less 

 serviceableo It is however desirable for every one to ac^ 



