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and in oft pleafant part of the day is from fix 

 to about half- part feven o'clock in the morn- 

 nirig : about eight an opprefTive clofenefs is 

 often experienced, arifing from the decline of 

 the land breeze, before that from the fea has 

 become fufficiently ftrong to diffufe its influ- 

 ence. A fimilar period, likewife, occurs at 

 evening, between the abatement of the fea 

 breeze and the fetting in of the breeze from 

 the land. Some days the clofenefs of thefe 

 hours is fo flight, as to be fcarcely perceptible, 

 but commonly they are by far the mo ft op- 

 preffive of the twenty-four. 



Refpe&ing the mode of living it may be 

 remarked that in all countries faid to be civi- 

 lized, and among all people calling themfelves 

 cultivated, too much of time and attention are 

 devoted to the bufinefs of eating and drinking. 

 Perhaps the majority of difeafes in focial life 

 may be traced to this fource. Were it poffi- 

 ble to convey, in a {ingle fentence, the fright- 

 ful train of ills, the melancholy interruptions 

 of health, and the immenfe confumption of 

 time, thus produced, men would be fhocked 

 to read it ! They would be terrified to behold 



