EMIGRATION, OR 



with a stiff breeze, wafted us along faster than we had sailed 

 all the time we had been out. Rain and hazy weather 

 came on this evening, which compelled us reluctantly to 

 come to an anchor for fear of the shoals. The Chesapeak 

 is a very fine Bay, from ten or twelve to twenty miles 

 across, and upwards of two hundred long- ; its low banks, 

 fringed with trees, are all that is to be seen of the country, 

 excepting here and there a house near the shore, and occa 

 sionally a small town or village. A great number of small 

 craft, loaded with cord, wood for fuel, country produce, &c. 

 for Baltimore market. Ten thousands of wild ducks, geese, 

 swans, &c., almost covering the Bay, swimming and flying; 

 an English sportsman would be in his Elysium here ! 



Dec. 18. After a wet, blowing night, it cleared up soon 

 after day-light this morning, when we weighed anchor, and 

 proceeded up the Patapsco River. As beautiful a day as 

 ever shone, with a serene mild air, and pleasant light breeze. 

 Vessels of all sizes sailing in various directions, with well- 

 dressed people on board ; and Baltimore, with its white 

 buildings rising to our view on the sides of the hills, as we 

 approached it, had a most exhilarating effect on one whose 

 vision had been confined to the monotonous rolling of the 

 unstable waters for sixty five days, which is deemed a very 

 long voyage. 



CHAPTER II. 



ARRIVAL AT BALTIMORE DESCRIPTION OF THE TOWN, 



ITS INHABITANTS, AND CUSTOMS EXCURSIONS 

 IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD, AND CONTINUED RESI 

 DENCE- -WITH A VARIETY OF MISCELLANEOUS 

 REMARKS. 



MY diary having been kept as a daily journal, I shall now 

 offer it to the reader in that form, as exhibiting, better than 

 any other mode, a narrative of my proceedings ; and pre 

 senting to him the best means of understanding the occu 

 pations of my time, and the space I traversed. 



