of America, to us, seems most accordant with truth. He says: "The

amazing steadiness with which the Americans endure the most exquisite

torments, has induced some authors to suppose that, from the peculiar

feebleness of their frame, their sensibility is not so acute as

that of other people; as women, and persons of a relaxed habit, are

observed to be robust men, whose nerves are more firmly braced. But

the constitution of the Americans is not so different in its texture,

from that of the rest of the human species, as to account for this