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feeling something like fish out of water, we jumped 

 into the boat, and started for the shore. 



On once more arriving among houses, streets, and 

 marts for business, after a two-years' exile from them, 

 thoughts of my own happy home rushed up in my 

 memory, and bitterly did I deplore my foolishness in 

 having left it ; but soon, in the contemplation of new 

 objects, I cheered up, and began my peregrinations 

 through the city, with a determination to criticize 

 everything impartially, whether English or colonial. 



The most prominent objects, were the very con- 

 spicuous signs of the difi'erent groggeries, among 

 which I noticed one, on the corner of two streets, 

 with large letters, to the effect that it was the General 

 Washington House ; and a few steps further on was 

 the Virginia House : fully attesting that some wan- 

 dering Yankee, who still retained his American bias, 

 (and where is there a son of our native land — no 

 matter how long he has been absent — that does not 

 retain it?) had squatted here, and christened these 

 two sinks. Amongst other names, I also noticed, the 

 Marquis of Waterford, the Garrick's Head, Hand- 

 some Bar-Maid, White Swan, Inkermann Arms, &c. 

 Many of these were houses of ill-fame or assignation. 



Before going ashore, our captain, in a short, but 

 pithy address, strongly recommended to us the neces- 

 sity of avoiding the allurements of the various ship- 

 ping-agents located here. Seamen were scarce, and 

 these harpies, ever on the look-out for American sea- 

 men — more particularly whalemen, to whom, in or- 

 der to secure them, they will at any time give the 

 post of boatsteerer — made many offers to induce our 

 men to desert. The captain mentioned the fact, that 



