8. Drinks have been milk, milk and water, or cold water. 9. A _well-selected_ vegetable diet appears to produce a very regular action of the stomach and bowels. 10. I think the health of laborers and students would be promoted by a _great_ reduction of the usual quantity of animal food, and perhaps by discontinuing its use entirely. I feel no want. 11. From my experience, I can very highly recommend bread made of coarse wheat flour. Among fruits, the blackberry, as peculiarly adapted to the state of the body, at the time of the year when it is in season. My range of food has been confined. I avoid green vegetables. Age 35. JOSEPH CONGDON. LETTER XI.--FROM GEORGE W. BAKER, ESQ. NEW BEDFORD, 9th month, 10, 1835. DR. M. L. NORTH,--Agreeably to request, the following answers are forwarded, which I believe to be correct as far as my experience has tested. 1. At first it was diminished; but after a few months it was restored, and I think increased. 2. More. 3. It could. 4. Pretty free from constitutional infirmities before the change, and no increase since. 5. I have had no cold, of any consequence, for the last three years; at which time I substituted cold water for tea and coffee, and commenced using cold water for washing about my head and neck and for shaving, which I continued through the year. 6. I have not eaten animal food for about eighteen months. 7. Two years previous to the entire change the quantity was great, but there had been a gradual diminution. 8. It was. (See fifth answer.) 9. More so, in my case. 10. I believe the health of both laborers and students would be improved. 11. I have generally avoided eating cucumbers; otherwise I have not. Thy assured friend, GEO. W. BAKER. LETTER XII--FROM JOHN HOWLAND, JR., ESQ. NEW BEFORD, 9th month, 10th day, 1835. FRIEND,--As I have lived nearly three years upon a vegetable diet, I cheerfully comply with thy request. 1. My bodily strength has been increased; and I can now endure much more exercise than formerly, without fatigue. 2. They are more agreeable; and I am now free from that dull, heavy feeling, which I used to experience after my meals. 3. My mind is much clearer; and I am free from that depression of spirits, to which I was formerly subject. 4. I was of a costive, dyspeptic habit, which has been entirely removed. I had frequent and severe attacks of headache, which I now rarely have; and when they do occur they are very light, compared with what they formerly were. 5. I have had fewer colds, and those much lighter than formerly. 6. About three years. 7. I used to eat animal food for breakfast and dinner, with coffee for drink, at those meals; and tea for my third meal, with bread and butter. 8. Milk for breakfast, and cold water for the other two meals.