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practically she proved to be much farther out at sea, 

 for all that afternoon and night she held steadily on 

 her course, and not till next morning did the coast of 

 Long Island, like a thin broken cloud just defined on 

 the horizon, come into view. But before many hours 

 we had passed the Hook, and were moving slowly up 

 the bay in the mid-day splendor of the powerful and 

 dazzling light of the New World sun. And how good 

 things looked to me after even so brief an absence ! 

 the brilliancy, the roominess, the deep transparent 

 blue of the sky, the clear, sharp outlines, the metro- 

 politan splendor of New York, and especially of 

 Broadway ; and as I walked up that great thorough- 

 fare and noted the familiar physiognomy and the 

 native nonchalance and independence, I experienced 

 the delight that only the returned traveler can feel, 

 the instant preference of one's own country and coun- 

 trymen over all the rest of the world. 



