Our Felucca Came Round From Porto Mauritio In The
Night, And Embarking Next Morning, We Arrived At Nice About Four
In The Afternoon.
Thus have I given you a circumstantial detail of my Italian
expedition, during which I was exposed to a
Great number of
hardships, which I thought my weakened constitution could not
have bore; as well as to violent fits of passion, chequered,
however, with transports of a more agreeable nature; insomuch
that I may say I was for two months continually agitated either
in mind or body, and very often in both at the same time. As my
disorder at first arose from a sedentary life, producing a
relaxation of the fibres, which naturally brought on a
listlessness, indolence, and dejection of the spirits, I am
convinced that this hard exercise of mind and body, co-operated
with the change of air and objects, to brace up the relaxed
constitution, and promote a more vigorous circulation of the
juices, which had long languished even almost to stagnation. For
some years, I had been as subject to colds as a delicate woman
new delivered. If I ventured to go abroad when there was the
least moisture either in the air, or upon the ground, I was sure
to be laid up a fortnight with a cough and asthma. But, in this
journey, I suffered cold and rain, and stood, and walked in the
wet, heated myself with exercise, and sweated violently,
without feeling the least disorder; but, on the contrary, felt
myself growing stronger every day in the midst of these excesses.
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