anxious care by the presence of others and their extemporaneous converse, when, if left alone to yourself, it might prove next to impracticable to unshackle the trammelled habits of intense application; and unless such be accomplished, the chief end of the excursion is missed the mind must be at ease to allow the body to reap the benefit of its exertions. Davis observes most justly, in his interesting Manual, p. 355,--" As we have seen that, for an agreeable and beneficial exercise, there must be an harmonious action in a large number of the parts and organs of the body, so there should be a like harmony of excitation to call this action forth. The will, the great stimulant of muscular contraction, must direct its efforts with singleness of purpose to the acting limbs."

56. The allotting of the amount of exercise each day is, for the commencement of such a tour, and to the unaccustomed, of the greatest consequence; and we must proceed to shew why it is so, in order that this condition, absolutely essential to the pleasure and benefit of the pedestrian excursion, may be cautiously secured. People may be accustomed to walk about all day in town, and yet find a day's walk in the country very different; and, from their not rightly estimating this experience, may be very apt to overdo themselves at starting, and so get fatigued with the new and exhilarating demands upon their animal frame and spirits: therefore it would be well to limit their first and even second day's work to something under what they might possibly accomplish at a great stretch; for, if the first day become a toil instead of a pleasure, the spirits begin to flag, and a listlessness as to the objects undertaken steals over the mind, owing to fatigue. Few minds can then, under the pressure and lassitude caused by the first day's forced march, muster up courage sufficient to throw themselves

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not anything cold, being hot. Pull not off your clothes when in perspiration, neither sit in draughts of air nor upon moist turf or moss; but rather, if you must take liquid, make use of a drop of real eau de vie (brandy) or other spirit, because, when the whole body is excessively heated, any cold beverage suddenly gulped down in the eagerness of gratifying thirst too rapidly cools down the blood, and checks dangerously the circulation! See that the food you take be fresh, and not greasy" (that is, not bad or old). I shall be excused in presenting one more additional quotation in reference to the effects of water as applied to the skin in allaying thirst, borrowed from the narrative of the gallant officer before mentioned :-" The heat was dreadful, and the enemy had cut the ropes of the different wells. I had learned, from my walking experience, that to thirsty men drinking water only gives momentary relief, but that if the legs are wetted, the relief, though not at first apparent, positively destroys the pain of thirst. Seeing a muddy pool at the bottom of one of the hills, by which we must pass to attack the convent of Bostillo, I halted for a few minutes, making the men wet themselves from the knees downwards." Satisfied of the correctness of this easy plan, we have introduced in the frontispiece the plan as it should be carried out for a moment or two only. Against this plan an objection has been pointed out, based upon the fear of danger from plunging the legs in water, or wetting them. A party so looking at it has recommended, the method of rinsing the mouth with cold spring water, and the use of a soft tooth-brush, as refreshing and quenching to the thirst, without the risk of evils attending the swallowing part of the business. We can only say, that this rinsing is very good and unexceptionable where and when practicable-only that where the rinsing can be put in practice, the temptation to the swal