CHAPTER III. 



FIRST JOURNEY IN EUROPE. 



1838-1839. 



IT has been deemed expedient to give a somewhat 

 fuller narrative of Dr. Gray's first visit to Europe 

 than of his subsequent ones. It was then that he 

 formed many personal acquaintances which ripened 

 into lifelong friendships, and received his first im- 

 pressions of scenes in nature and art which were to 

 become very familiar. His letters home took the form 

 of a very detailed journal, and it is in extracts from 

 this journal, supplemented by letters to other friends, 

 that this narrative consists. 



JOURNAL. 

 ADELPHI HOTEL, LIVERPOOL, 12 M., December 1, 1838. 



We came up the Channel with a gentle breeze, and 

 anchored at half -past nine. At ten minutes past ten 

 I set my feet on the soil (or rather the stone) of Old 

 England. We were very fortunate in our ship, hav- 

 ing made our voyage in twenty-one days ; while the 

 England (in which, you may remember, I once had in- 

 tended to sail), which left New York on the first of 

 November, came to anchor just ten minutes before us 

 (thirty days). The Garrick, which sailed on the 

 twenty-fifth of October, arrived here only on Saturday. 

 I must close this letter early in the morning. . . . 



