TIIE FIRST EDITION. X1X this view, the wisest and most correct of our emigrants, may, by lending them- selves to the practice, furnish, in the result, an apology for things which they themselves disapprove ; and thus their example may be pleaded, as favouring what they would be amongst the last to tolerate. That long and frequent absences from our home, and especially from our coun- try, are not favourable to the mind, is but too visible in that spirit of restless. ness acquired by so many who have repeatedly made the experiment. For it is observable that the desire once in- dulged, instead of being cooled, is in- flamed ; inclination becomes voracity. Appetite has grown with indulgence. And is it not to be feared that the sober scenes of domestic, and espe- cially of rural life, will continue to appear more and more insipid in pro- portion to the frequency with which they are deserted ? Will not successive and protracted carnivals convert the
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