KO EMIGRATION 



On the 18th Dec., at two o clock, the pilot laid the vessel 

 alongside the wharf, when, in an instant its deck was 

 covered with people of all sorts, looking about and asking- 

 questions. After packing my luggage, I went into the town 

 to procure something to eat, lodgings, &c., when I felt 

 myself a stranger, on a foreign, although a kindred strand. 

 After dining: heartily on some excellent sausages, with some 

 pleasant mild ale, I took a ramble through the city ; but I 

 hardly knew how to walk, the pavement seemed to have the 

 motion of the vessel. 



Baltimore is a large town, with some handsome public 

 and private buildings ; the streets are spacious, airy, and 

 clean ; the centres pitched with rock stone, and the side 

 walks paved with red brick, of which also houses are mostly 

 built. Pratt Street, along the water side, was all in a 

 bustle, and apparently full of business, but the method of 

 doing it evidently differs considerably from the manner in 

 England. 



Dec. 19. Sunday. At one church, and two meeting 

 houses (no chapels here) ; some of them elegant buildings, 

 with very respectable-looking congregations. Dined with 

 the captain, whose treatment was hospitable. The manners 

 of the Americans appear widely different to the English, 

 particularly of the females, who are more easy and un 

 embarrassed, yet reserved, in their address, than the retiring- 

 diffidence of the latter. Took lodgings at a respectable ship 

 carpenter s, at three dollars, or 13s. Qd. sterling, per week, 

 board, washing, and mending including. 



Dec. 20. A clear, bright, frosty air this morning. Ther 

 mometer in my sleeping room 43. Went to the custom 

 house, with the captain, to clear my luggage. Paid half a 

 dollar to a notary (a very polite, agreeable person) for draw 

 ing up an inventory and certificate of my luggage, and 20 

 cents (one-fifth of a dollar, or about lid. sterling) on pre 

 senting it, when the only question asked was, Will you 

 swear this is a correct statement, and that the articles are 

 for your own private use ? I merely answered in the 

 affirmative. Had a ramble through the town and its en 

 virons. Like the appearance of the Americans generally, 

 and think the place prosperous, as the people appear to be 

 all employed and busy, and have the air of ease and content 

 in their countenances, wich but little superciliousness. The 

 markets are well supplied with meat as to quantity, bu-t th 

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