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Shaw Chapter I 2

              I w/d 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 amend- ment, 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 insert likely to be /insert so fine that the only benefit he w.d derive from his two voyages w.d be that of breathing the air of the ocean for as many days as he w.d spend in making them. But in winter these w.d be almost a certainly of some rough weather; + if after a few days he s.d prove capable of resisting the usual disturbing effects of such weather at sea, + came to take a pleasure in ? + batting against boisterous winds + tossing waves I do not know what c.d 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 w.d not be ? [[?][ with advantage for I suppose it w.d bring into action + develop muscles not much used at other times. In winter too the air w.d 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 w.d of itself have with many constitutions an invigorating effect. But