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morning of the 15th, exactly ten weeks from 

 the day on which I landed there from Liver- 

 pool. 



I found the Britannia Steamer now at Bos- 

 ton, and was heartily welcomed by Captain 

 Cleland and Lieutenant Roberts. The same 

 day I attended a dinner on board and wit- 

 nessed the presentation to the Captain of a 

 piece of plate to which, along with my fellow 

 passengers from Liverpool, I had cheerfully 

 subscribed, as an acknowledgment of our sense 

 of his kind and polite attention, and the sea- 

 manship and discipline displayed by him on a 

 voyage for the greater part so extremely bois- 

 terous as that which in April and May we 

 performed with him to Halifax. 



Now on the eve of bidding farewell to Ame- 

 rica, I must express the high gratification I 

 have derived from my visit to that great, ris- 

 ing, and most interesting country, the ad- 

 vancement of which in power and riches, is, 



