28 MEMOIR OF 



in miseries any twenty journeys I ever made in my life. 

 Thank God, the whole has been productive of nothing- 

 worse, than some hoarseness to my wife, and a galloping 

 consumption of my bank notes. We were thirteen days 

 on the way, twelve of which gave us as heavy rains as 

 ever poor mortals could venture to travel in ; and this 

 produced such a delightfully soft state of the roads, that 

 but for the rocks, (which fortunately were not twenty 

 feet below the surface,) we might have been extracted 

 some thousand years hence, in a high state of preserva- 

 tion, to decorate Best's museum, having one of Dor- 

 feuille's mummy labels around our necks. 



" If I were one of the ' tristful travellers,' I might draw 

 much ' matter of melancholy' from these ' misadven- 

 tures,' as my friend Sancho Panza calls them. But as 

 the blessed sun of heaven has driven forth once more in 

 his beamy chariot, and the clouds are scattered from 

 their long- held seats, those which have loured on my 

 mind, have also fled ; and with ' a light heart,' I am once 

 more preparing to encounter all the good or ill that God 

 may send." 



Of Dr. Godman's life and labours from this time for- 

 ward, we shall say but little, as they are known to all 

 the reading people of the United States, both in and out 

 of the profession ; and as our chief object is to present 

 the difficulties and triumphs of his earlier years, for the 

 benefit of our younger readers. 



In Philadelphia he immediately began to lecture on 



