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Shaw Chapter I 2

              I wd recommend the man who begins to feel the

effects of long continued professional labour, or of an idle & luxurious life, if his constitution is still capable of amendment, to try the effects of a voyage across the Atlantic, & back again in winter; with such an interval between the two as he might be able to allow for a tour in the United States. In the summer the weather is likely to be so fine that the only benefit he wd derive from his two voyages wd be that of breathing the air of the ocean for as many days as he wd spend in making them. But in winter there wd be almost a certainly of some rough weather; & if after a few days he sd prove capable of resisting the usual disturbing effects of such weather at sea, & came to take a pleasure in facing & battling against boisterous winds & tossing waves, I do not know what cd more rapidly brace up within him what had begun to fail. Even the mere finding of ones's sea-legs & the subsequent use of them under difficulties wd not be unattended with advantage, for I suppose it wd bring into action & develop muscles not much used at other times. In winter too the air wd be cool (it is not at all necessarily cold at that season on the track between England & America, except when one nears the American Coast) & this coolness of the air wd of itself have with many constitutions an invigorating effect. But