Illustration from the 1807 book A Journal of the Voyages and Travels of a Corps of Discovery by Phillip Gass, sergeant on the Lewis and Clark expedition, born June 12, 1771.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
History, Horoscope, and Hearsay
"All my griefs to this are jolly,
Naught so damned as melancholy."
-- Robert Burton
from The Anatomy of Melancholy
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