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much inclined to visit, any others of the 
celebrated caves and excavations.in the 
neighbourhood of those we had just seen, 
Of these, there are several; but none 
equal to these we had visited; we there- 
fore hastened back to our former nighbt’s 
quarters at Ingleton, where we procured 
a change of clothes, which the damps, and 
crawling amongst the rocks, rendered 
highly necessary; and, on the ensuing 
morn, pursued the way to Kendal, from 
whence it was our intention to proceed 
by a mountainous tract to Mardale, and 
Haws-water, which we put in execution, 
having hired a guide and horses for that 
purpose, and sent the carriage and ser- 
vants on to Penrigh, to await our coming 
thither. Of this alpine journey you 
shall have an account in my next, aud 
meanwhile I remain, 
Tae WANDERER, 
ey Er te 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
WISH, through the medium of your 
valuable miscellany, t communicate 
to the public the good effects that have 
resulted to me fiom the use of stramo- 
nium. I had been many years much, 
and most distressingly afilicted with 
asthma,. and had im vain cousuited the 
most eminent of the faculty in this city 
and neighbourhood, than which no place 
more abounds with physicians, and I be- 
lieve none are to be found, even in the 
metropelis itself, more skilful. Their pre- 
scriptions proved almost entirely nuga- 
tory, or at best afforded only temporary 
relief; and I looked forward to nothing 
better than the dragging on a miserable 
existence, embittered by one of the most 
cruel diseases to which human life 1s sub- 
ject, when I read with emotions com- 
bined of pleasure, hope, and donbr, 
your correspondent Verax’s letter, de- 
scribing the beneficial effects of stra- 
monium upon himself, iu the disease of 
spasmodic asthma. As I had never heard 
of the plant before, I immediately har- 
ried, with the book in my, hand, to a 
physician in whom I had much confi- 
dence; but he discouraged me from using 
it, merely, I apprehend, from ignorance 
of its qualities: however, T should not 
have been deterred from trying it, if I 
could have procured it, but f soughe it 
jn vain in every chemist’s shop in this 
city; and an interval of comparative 
ease, induced me to defer sending for it 
to London, until I could meet with a 
medical man acquainted with its quali- 
ties. However, about a month ago, the 
_ disorder returned upon me with redous 
* 
Effects of Stramoniumim Asthna. 
415 
bled violence: it was with difficulty £ 
could respire in an upright posture, and 
to lie down would have sutlocated me. 
Tn this dreadful delemma, [received your 
last Number; and, upon referring to Dr. 
Reid’s Report, { with emotions of delight 
read his corroboration of Verax’s account 
of the effects of stramonium. I immedi- 
ately obtained a quantity from London 
at an exorbitant price, and smoked it 
as directed: 11 @ few hours L was most 
wonderfully relieved; and from the daily 
use of it since, Lat this moment enjoy a 
degree of ease, which I have not knowr 
for nearly nine years. [can lie down im 
security; and for the last ten nights have 
never once been under the necessity of 
rising 1n my bed: for the last eighteen 
months I am certain this has not once 
before occurred; and during the day, i 
feel scarcely any vestiges of the disease, 
To those (and they are many) who have 
known my sufferings for several years, 
my recovery appears miraculous ; to mys 
self, the merciful interposition of. Provi- 
dence. Forthe good of the public I write 
this candid statement of my case. 
GeorGE JAMES WILLIS. 
Hotwells, Bristol, Oct. 4, 1810. 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
ABSTRACT of d@ JOURNAL kept in MARYs- 
LAND, in the Years 1805 and 1806. 
Jun. 19, 7% Q-day I attended the 
1806. quarterly meeting of 
the methodists at Rreister’s Town; there 
might be three hundred hearers, The 
preachers ring continually the same 
changes upon man’s fall, grace, and 
faith; the same groaning and gruntin 
as before. They concluded by giving 
notice, that there would be evening ser= 
vice, ‘* Let us, (said one of the preach» 
ers, Bloodgood,) have another stroke at 
’ 
the devil.” In truth, their devotion res - 
sembles a brawl or a fight, more than 
that -of rational beings calmly and se-« 
riously coutemplating the tender mercies 
and dispensations of the Father of the 
universe, and intent on proving their 
faith in, and dependence upon him, by 
an edifying life and conversation. These 
pecple seem to think they can. take 
Heaven by storm, and keep the’ devil 
away by a hell ot their own, 
26.—Went to Baltimore, and accome 
pamed two gentiemen to the other side 
of the eastern Water, off the puint, to 
near a spot called Canton, -the seat of 
the late John Of Donnell, esqe.' dt is.an 
excellent brickhouse, frontisg the souths 
west of the bason, and commandi 
