BOSTON, 135 



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, 



