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SECTION 1. 
Notices from England to our departure from St. Jago. 
Ow the 22d of February, I set out from Charing-cross for 
Sheerness, to which port the vessels belonging to the ex- 
pedition had proveeded some days ago. Paul Hafgaard, 
with several others, accompanied me till I got into the 
coach. People who were nearly strangers to me, here 
bade me farewell with tears in their eyes, and looks that 
expressed their doubt of seeing me any more. Von Buch 
accompanied me as far as Sheerness. . It was for the first 
time I saw this part of the Thames. Its beautiful wind- 
ings, and the varying scenery on and around its waters, 
afforded us great pleasure. The view from Shooter’s hill 
is of animmense extent. At Rochester, the Medway dis- 
plays its greatest beauty. During our whole journey, 
those hills of Kent, which terminate in the chalk hills of 
Dover, were seen by us. On the other side of Rochester 
the country becomes more level, barren, and uniform. 
Orchards of cherry trees, for which this county is cele- 
brated, were seen on all sides in great number. The rich 
but distant treasures I was going to enjoy oceupied my 
thoughts, 
