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tedious con- veyance. |

In crossing the bay we

met with a squall which | shattered to | pieces

our

| rotten sails, pre- | vented us from entering the | Kill, and threw us upon | Long | Island. |

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approaching the | Island, we found that we had | made a part of the coast | where it was not | possible to | land, on ac- | count of the strong | breakers duced by the rocky shore. || Night came | on,

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| nothing re- | mained for us | but to wait | quietly the sub- siding of the wind, till when we de- | termined to sleep, if | possible; | 11for that purpose we | went below the | hatches. The | sea | broke over the | boat, | and | reached us | in our re- | treat, so that | we were presently com- | pletely | drenched. |

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| night: but the | wind a- | bating the | next day,

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succeeded in | reaching | Amboy be- | fore it was | dark, | after having | passed | thirty | hours with- | out pro- |

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The next day I crossed the | river in a | ferry boat,

and con- | tinued my | journey on | foot.

I had | fifty miles to walk | in | order to | reach | Burlington, |

where I was told I should find passage-boats

con- vey me to | Phila- | delphia.

whole day, so that I was

that would

It rained | hard the

wet to the | skin. | |

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Finding my-self fa- | tigued |a- | bout | noon, | I | stop

ped at a paltry | inn, where I | passed the | rest of the |

day,
that I had quitted my home.

and the whole | night,
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be- | ginning to re- | gret

The next day,

however,

I con

tinued my journey,

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and ar- |

rived in the evening

at an | inn | eight or | ten | miles

from | Burlington. || Here I | spent the night, | reached | Burlington the | next | morning.

and

On my

ar- | rival | I | had the | mortifi- | cation to | learn that the | passage-boats had sailed a little be- | fore.

This was on a Saturday, and there would be | no other | boat till the | Tuesday | following. || Here I im- | agined myself to be | fixed till | then; but | walking | out in the evening, by the | river side, |I| saw a | boat with a number of persons in it

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It was going to | Phila- | delphia,

took me in. As there was

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we could

no | wind,

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only make | way with our | oars. | not perceiving the town,

company |

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were of opinion

A- | bout | midnight, |

and some of the

that we must have |

passed it, and were un- | willing to | row any | further, |

❘ | the rest not | knowing | where we were, it was

re- | solved that we should | stop.

the shore, entered a | creek, | | |

We | drew | towards

and | landed | near

some | old | pali- | sades, which | served us for | firewood,

it being a cold | night in Oc- |tober. || Here we | stayed till | day, when | one of the company | found the place in which we | were to be | Cooper's | Creek,

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a little above Phila- | delphia, | which in re- | ality | we per- |ceived the moment we were | out of the | creek. | We ar- | rived on | Tuesday, a- | bout | eight or | nine o'clock in the morning, and | landed on | Market | |

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On my arrival at | Phila- | delphia,

I was in my |

working dress, my best | clothes | being to | come by | sea. I was covered with | dirt; my | pockets were | filled with | shirts and | stockings;

with a single soul in the | place, |

to seek for a lodging. |

I was | unac- | quainted

and | knew not | where

Fa- | tigued with | walking, |

with- |

rowing, and | having | passed the | night out | sleep, I was ex- | tremely | hungry. |I| walked to- | wards the top of the street, | looking | eagerly |on| both sides, till I came to | Market street, |7| where I met a child with a | loaf of bread. I in- | quired | where he had bought it, and I went | straight to the | baker's shop, which he pointed out to me. 1919 1771 I asked for some | biscuits, ex- | pecting to | find | such as we had at Boston; but they | made, it seems, none of ❘ that | sort at | Phila- | delphia. |I| then | asked for a three-penny | loaf: they | made no | loaves of | that price. 191

Finding myself | ignorant

of the prices, as well

as of the different | kinds of | bread, I de- | sired him

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to let me | have | three- | penny worth of bread of |

some kind or other. He gave me

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three | large

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rolls. I was sur- | prised at re- | ceiving so much;

I took them, how- | ever, | and | having | no | room in my

pockets, I walked | on arm, | eating the | third. | I through | Market street

with a | roll | under each | In this manner I | went street, | and |

to | Fourth

the

father of my |

door, ob- | |

passed the house of Mr. | Read,

future wife. She was standing at the
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served me, and | thought with | reason that I | made

a | very | singular and gro- | tesque ap- | pearance.

I then turned the corner, and I went through ! Chestnut street, eating my | roll | all the way; and having | made | this | round, |I| found myself |a-gain on Market street | wharf, | near the | boat in | which I arrived. I stepped | into it to | take a | draught of |

river water;

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and | finding my- | self | satisfied with my | first | roll, |I| gave the | other | two to a | woman | and her child, who had | come | down the | river | with us

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in the boat, and was waiting to con- | tinue her | jour| | Thus re- | freshed, I re- | gained the street, || which was now | full of well-dressed | people, | all | going the same | way. I joined them, and was | thus | led to a large | Quakers' | meeting-house, near the | market-place. I sat down with the rest; | and | | after looking round me for | some | time, | hearing | nothing said, and | being | drowsy night's labor and | want of | rest,

I

sleep. In this | state I con- | tinued bly dispersed, when | one of the had the goodness to wake me. | quently the first | house I entered, slept in | Phila- | delphia. ||17|

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from my last |

fell into a sound till the as- | semcongre- gation | | This was conseor in | which I |

FROM SHAKSPEARE'S HENRY IV.

SECOND PART-ACT THIRD.

How many thousands of my | poorest | subjects |
Are at this | hour a- | sleep. 17710 gentle | sleep! |
Nature's soft | nurse, | how have | I | frighted thee,
That thou no more wilt | weigh mine | eyelids | down,
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And steep my | senses in for- | getfulness?

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Why | rather, sleep, | liest thou in | smoky | cribs,

Upon uneasy | pallets | stretching thee, |

And hush'd with | buzzing | night-flies to thy | slumber; |

Than in the perfumed | chambers of the great, |

Under the | canopies of costly | state,

And lulled with | sounds of | sweetest | melody? |

O thou | dull | god, | why | liest thou with the | vile, In loathesome | beds, and | leavest the | kingly | couch | Awatch-case or a common | larum-bell? | |

Wilt thou upon the | high and | giddy | mast |

Seal up the | ship-boy's | eyes,

and | rock his | brains |

In cradle of the | rude, im- | perious surge,
And in the | visi- | tation of the | winds

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Canst thou, | O | partial | sleep! | give thy re- | pose |

To the wet | sea-boy

in an hour | so | rude, [.

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