Chapter XXX: Letter IX: Amusements

Interpone tuis interdum gaudia curis,
Ut possis animo quemvis sufferre laborem.

[_(Dionys.) Cato de Moribus._ III. 7.]

... nostra [fatiscit]
Laxaturque chelys; vires instigat alitque
Tempestiva quies, major post otia virtus.

_Statius, Sylv._ lib. IV. [4, vv. 32-3].

Jamque mare et tellus nullum discrimen habebant;
Omnia pontus [erat]: deerant quoque littora ponto.

_Ovid. Metamorph._ lib. I [vv. 291-2].

Common Amusements of a Bathing-place--Morning Rides, Walks,
&c.--Company resorting to the Town--Different Choice of
Lodgings--Cheap Indulgences--Sea-side Walks--Wealthy
Invalid--Summer-Evening on the Sands--Sea Productions--"Water
parted from the Sea"--Winter Views serene--In what Cases to be
avoided--Sailing upon the River--A small Islet of Sand off the
Coast--Visited by Company--Covered by the Flowing of the
Tide--Adventure in that Place.