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SCARBR0 . 



Often indeed the shattered frame of man receives 

 more benefit from them, than he does from the 

 daily use of Galen's patent medicines. 



When we keep company with gentlemen who 

 have passed their lives at sea, and who have resisted 

 temptations to licentiousness, we are astonished 

 at their hale appearance. I have been acquainted 

 with some of our British admirals, and have read 

 of many more, who were in health and vigor, 

 after having passed the good old age of eighty-two 

 years. I am confident, notwithstanding what some 

 people may say to the contrary, that these noble 

 British tars, owe their health to Neptune, and not 

 to Galen. 



So, I should say, that all those who have it 

 in their power, ought once a year, at least, to spend 

 a week or two at the sea- side. And were I asked 

 to recommend a proper, and an entertaining station, 

 my answer would be, — go and visit Scarbro'. 



If custom were not second nature, say, I pray 

 you, what would become of those who are doomed 

 to spend their lives, in districts of almost Cim- 

 merian darkness, which the smoke from long 

 chimneys has brought upon our manufacturing 

 towns ? — towns, in my own remembrance, enjoying 

 all the blessings of a once clear and pure atmo- 

 sphere, which at present is polluted by clouds of 

 black smoke, — now driven along by the boisterous 



