Health trip to the Tropics

Front matter

RULES AND REGULATIONS

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Preface

This volume would hardly represent truly the health-trip of which it is the chronicle, unless fragmented, as it is, with the interruptions of illness. There were intervals when the depression of disease overpowered both the enjoyment of what was around and the faculty to describe it. But the intermediate scenes and sensations were of unexpected novelty and pleasureableness — so much so, that, even without the stimulus of an habitual literary profession, I should feel called upon to record them for invalid cheering and guidance. The trip is, at least, a delightful

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opiate and recreation within easy reach. By what I enjoyed and described, those interested may judge of what the other parts of this tropical pilgrimage might be, to themselves. I have other notes, made as brokenly, which I may yet write out and publish — but, these being sufficient, thus far, to form a volume, I give them out in the hope that here and there a sufferer may benefit by them, at the same time claiming the kind indulgence of the reading public for their fragmented character. N. P. WILLIS.

Idlewild, on the Hudson, Sept., 1853.