[154] Seventh Part of the new Collection of Travels. [155] I speak more particularly of the daughters, because they are the most frequent and greatest victims; the sons are bloodless mass-offerings. [156] Pliny, Nat. Hist., VIII. 16. [157] And this is quite probable. Dr. Edward Hill reckoned that in England eight thousand die annually of unhappy love,--of broken hearts, as the Englishwomen touchingly express it. Beddoes shows that vegetable food--and of this such victims are particularly fond--fosters consumption, and that females incline to this. Besides, the times of longing, which of itself, even without disappointment, as homesickness shows, is a poisonous revolving leaden ball, occur in youth, when the seed of pectoral maladies most easily springs up. O many married ones fall, under misconstructions, victims to the death-angel, into whose hand they had, previously to marriage, put the sword they themselves had sharpened! [158] Forster's Views, Vol. I. [159] A line (French) is one twelfth of an inch.--TR. [160] Because he had just said he did not know her.--TR. [161] Weigel. in Jena, invented the inverted bridge (_pons heteroclitus_), a stairway on which a person seems to descend, by going up.--_Bush's Handbook of Inventions_, Vol. VII. [162] It had the name from its height and its being so often struck with lightning. THIRTEENTH JUBILEE. ROQUAIROL'S LOVE.--PHILIPPIC AGAINST LOVERS.--THE PICTURES.--ALBANO ALBANI.--THE HARMONIC TÊTE-À-TÊTE.--THE RIDE TO BLUMENBÜHL. 60. CYCLE.