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lability of habit, or some grief or anxiety of the 

 mind, it is the cause of so great a determination 

 of blood to the head, with excessive action of the 

 arteries of the brain, and so much perturbation 

 of the animal spirits, that often admit of no relief 

 or composure but what the unhappy sufferer, 

 after violent convulsive struggles, frenzy, and 

 inflammation of the brain, finds in death — some- 

 times, indeed, he escapes this fate, to experience 

 the miserable alternative of a long imbecility of 

 the faculties of the mind. 



^* Therefore, let not the discontented in mind, 

 nor the broken-hearted, hope to evade his cares 

 and troubles by changing to these climes ; nor 

 think that any passion which has stormed the 

 breast, will abate its force by distance. Nostal- 

 gia, that longing after home, exerts its painful 

 influence in the remotest regions, and magnifies 

 to danger the most trivial indisposition of either 

 body or mind, when both are already half sub- 

 dued by the heat and dread of climate. 



Those whose happy days have not yet been 



