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��A SAIL of four hours brought us from Clifton to our steam-ship, The Great Western, which awaited us in the deeper waters. She took us under her protection, during a great rain, and spread for us all the comforts and accommodations which those palaces of the wave know so well how to supply.

High head-winds, and grand, bold, violet-robed surges, now and then tossing up crescent-shaped coronets of green or white, attended the earlier part of our voyage. Forty passengers chose various modes of amusement, or employment, mostly pursued with inertness, or ending in sleep, the chief resource. Four times in twenty-four hours, those who were thus inclined, heeded the sum mons to a luxuriously furnished board.

I am led to believe that a certain regimen may be pursued to repel, or at least to modify sea-sickness. One of its principal elements must be an energy of will, a determination not to yield to the pitiless monster. Cheerful society, light reading, walking much in the open air upon deck, when the weather permits, and overcoming the repulsion at the sight of food, by brave

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