banks, by the works of Mr. Arkwright, back to the house whence he
started, a distance of five miles. On dismounting, however, he was
seized with diliquium, and soon after the strength he had recovered was
lost by an attack of the haemorrhoids of the most painful kind, and
requiring much loss of blood from the parts affected.

On reflection, it appeared that the only benefit received by the
patient was during motion, and continued motion could better be
obtained in the course of a journey than during his residence at any
particular place. This, and other circumstances of a private but
painful nature, determined him to set out from Matlock on a journey to
Scotland. The weather was now much improved, and during the journey he
recruited his strength. Though as yet he could not sit upright at rest
for half an hour together without a disposition to giddiness, dimness
of sight, and deliquium, he was able to sit upright under the motion of
a post-chaise during a journey of from 40 to 70 miles daily, and his
appetite began to improve. Still his cough continued, and his hectic
flushings, though the chills were much abated and very irregular.

The salutary effects of motion being now more striking than ever, he
purchased a horse admirably adapted to a valetudinarian in
Dumfriesshire, and being now able to sit on horseback for an hour
together, he rode out several times a day. He fixed his residence for a
few weeks at Moffat, a village at the foot of the mountains whence the
Tweed, the Clyde, and the Annan, descend in different directions; a
situation inland, dry, and healthy, and elevated about three hundred
feet above the surface of the sea. Here his strength recovered daily,
and he began to eat animal food, which for several months before he had
not tasted. Persevering in exercise on horseback, he gradually
increased the length of his rides, according to his strength, from four
to twenty miles a day; and returning on horseback to Lancashire by the
lakes of Cumberland, he arrived at Liverpool on the first of September,
having rode the last day of his journey forty miles.

The two inferences of most importance to be drawn from this narrative,
are, first, the extraordinary benefit derived from gestation in a
carriage, and still more the mixture of gestation and exercise on
horseback, in arrestin