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bias that will ultimately destroy their happiness, because they can- 

 not find that consolation in futurity, and those anticipated enjoy- 

 ments, for which, by an unnecessary self-denial, they now sacrifice 

 so many real and present comforts. You, my dear friend, are not 

 one of those, and most heartily do I congratulate you that you are 

 not. 



" I cannot, my excellent friend, allow you to 

 leave India without a iew lines, especially as I do not think you 

 received a letter which 1 lately wrote on the subject of your health. 

 I was truly concerned to find you had been so dangerously ill at 

 Surat, and not entirely free from a relapse of fever at Bombay. 

 You certainly never have enjoyed perfect health in this climate, 

 and now that you are leaving it, I would advise you not to sit loo 

 much at the desk, and to use more exercise. Wherever your lot 

 may be cast, let me entreat of you to walk out early in a pure air, 

 on a dry soil; gentle riding on horseback will also be extremely 

 beneficial to you. Be careful in your diet, and do not lead so 

 sedentary a life as you have been accustomed to from the heat of 

 the climate in India; your writing and drawing, however fasci- 

 nating, must not engage so much of your time; by inactivity the 

 fibres are relaxed and debilitated, the humours of the body more 

 viscid and abundant, and consequently when attacked by a disor- 

 der it will be the more severe. The habit being weakened, and 

 the humours accumulated, nature, even with the assistance of art, 

 finds it more difficult to throw off the morbid load. 



" On your arrival in England let me recommend you to drink 

 the Cheltenham waters; they are extremely efficacious in bilious 



