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Thus for example, if you turn out to 
walk in winter with coid feet, in an hour’s 
time, you will be in a glow all over ; ride 
on horleback, the fame effee& will fearcely 
be produced by four hours round trotting : 
but if you loll in fuchva carriage as that, 
you may goa journey, and gladly enter 
the laf inn to warm your feet by a fire. 
latter vourlelf, then, no longer that half 
an hour’s airing in your carriage deferves 
the name of exercife. Providence has ap- 
pointed few to roll in carriages—to all he 
given a pair of Jegs, which are in truth 
machines infinitely more commodious and 
ferviceable. Be grat«ful, then, and make 
a proper ufe of yours, Would you know 
how they forward the circulation of your 
Auids in the very action of tranfporting 
you from place to place; obferve when 
you walk, that all your weight is alter- 
nately thrown from one leg to the other; 
this oceafions a great preffure on the vef- 
fels of the foot, and repe!s their contents. 
When relieved by the weight being thrown 
on the other foot, the vefiels of the firft are 
allowed to replenifh, and by a return of 
the weight, this repulfion again fucceeds ; 
thus aecelerating the circulation of the 
blood. The heat produced in any given 
time, depends on the degree of this ac- 
eeleration: the fluids are fhaken, the 
humours attenuated, the fecretions are 
facilitated, and all goes well; the cheeks 
are ruddy, and health is eftablifhed. Bee 
hold your fair friend at Auteuil ; a lady 
who received from bounteous nature more 
really ufeful fctence, than half a dozen 
fuch pretetiders to philofophy as you, 
have been able to extract from alf your 
books ; when fhe henours you with a vifit, 
it is cn foot ; fhe walks ail hours of the 
cay, and leaves indolence and its con- 
comitant maladies to be endured by her 
horfes. See at once the prefervative of 
her health, and perfonal charms. On the 
other hand, when you arrve at Auteuil, 
its in your carriage, though its no farther 
from Paffey to Auteuil, thanfrom Auteuil 
to Pafley. 
Mr. Franklin. —Your reafonings grow 
very tirefome. 
Gout —I ftand corre&ted, I will be 
filent and continue my office: take this, 
end this. 
Mr. Frazklin.—Oh! Ohh!—Talkcn, F 
pray you! 
. pagent no; I havea good number 
cf twirges for you this night, and the reft 
you may be fure of to morrow, 
Mr. Franklin.—What, with fuch a 
fever! Eh! Eh!—I fhaii go diftragted, 
can no ene bear it forme ? 
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Gout and Dr. Franklin. 
[Sept. 1, 
Gout.—A fk that of your horfes; they 
have ferved you faithfully. 
Mr. Franklin.—How can you fo cruelly 
{port with my torments ? 
Gout.—TI am very ferious: I have here’ 
a litt of your offences again your own 
health ditinétly written, and can juftify 
every ftroke inflicted on you. 
ifr. Franklin. —Let’s hear it then. 
Gout.—Its too long a detail; you fhalf 
have it briefly. ; 
Mr. Franklin.—Proceed—I am all at- 
tention. : 
Gout.—Can you remember how often 
you have appointed the following morn- 
ing for a walk in the grove of Boulogne, 
im the garden ce la Muette, or in your 
own, and that you violated your promife ; 
alledging, at one time it was too cold, at 
another too warm, too windy, too moift, 
or too what elie you pieafed; when im 
truth it was too nothing, but your infu- 
perable love of eafe. : 
Mr. Franklin.—That I confefs may 
have happened fomcetimes; probably “ten 
times in a year. 
Gout.—Your confeffion is very imper- 
feét ; the grofs amount is one hundred and 
ninety-nine times. 
Mr. Frauklin.—Ts it poffible? 
Goui.—So poffible, that it is faét; you 
may rely on the accuracy of my ftatement. 
You know Mr. B—’s gardens, and what 
fine walks they contain; you know the 
handfome flight of an hundred fteps which 
lead from the terrace above to the level 
below. You have been in the pra€tice of 
vifiting this amiable family twice a weck : 
after dinner, and it being a maxim ef your 
own invention, that, ‘* one may take as 
much exercife in walking a mile up and 
down ftairs, as in ten on Jevel ground,” 
what an oppertunity was here for you 
to exercise in both thefe ways? Did you 
embrace it, and how often ? 
Mr. Frankiin.—I cannot at once anfwer 
this queftion. 
Gout.—I will do it for yew; notonce. - 
Mr. Franklin—Not once? 
Gout.—Even fo; all the fummer you 
went there at fix o'clock. You found 
the charming lady, with her lovely chil~ 
dyen and friends, eager to walk with yop 
and- entertain you with their agreeable 
converfation: and what has been your 
choice? Why to fit on the terrace, fatif- 
fying yourfelf with tie fine profpeét, and 
paling your eye over the beauties of the 
gardens below, but without taking one 
ftep to defcend and walk about in them, 
Cn the contrary you call for tea, and the ~ 
chefs-poard ; and lo! you are occupied 
in 
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