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possible effect of aggregate<l strength. They must also be 
taught to preserve their healtli and strength by habits of 
temperance and cleanliness, and to take care of themselves in 
the various circumstances that may occur of situation and 
climate. 
Such a body of men, so formed and prepared, may properly 
be called soldiers. And no small degree of attention and 
judgment is required to bring a body of men to such a state 
of discipline. Yet it is highly important that all troops, in- 
tended to be sent on foreign service, should at least be partly 
formed, and instructed in the art of taking proper care of 
themselves, previous to their embarkation. Being once ac- 
customed to habits of cleanliness and regularity, they are less 
liable to fall a sacrifice to the close confinement and want of 
room in a ship ; and the inconveniencies of a long sea voyage 
will always be less felt by persons thus prepared than by raw 
undisciplined recruits, who are apt to be heedless, slovenly, 
and irregular. 
But even old seasoned troops, after a long sea-voyage, are 
generally found to be disqualified, during a considerable time, 
for any great exertion. The tone or elasticity of the mind 
has become relaxed as well as the habit of body. Let 
any one recollect how he felt after a long sea-voyage, and 
ask himself if he were capable of the same exertion, and of 
undergoing the same fatigue, immediately after landing as 
before his embarkation. The answer, I fancy, will be in 
the negative. The limbs, in fact, require to be exercised in 
order to regain their usual motions^ and the lungs must have 
