XX MEMOIR. 



now to be performed in hurry and bustle, 

 and I immediately began to prepare for 

 my departure. 



I embarked in December, 1782, for St. 

 Augustine, in East Florida, carrying with 

 me as much of my brother's moveable 

 property as I could ; amongst other things, 

 a printing press, and a considerable quan- 

 tity of printers' types. When I arrived at 

 St. Augustine, I determined to put up 

 the press there, and print a newspaper. 

 But here a considerable difficulty arose; 

 the press had been easily taken to pieces 

 in Carolina, and I naturally thought that 

 it might be readily put together again; 

 more especially as I had brought with me 

 a regular pressman : but to my surprise 

 he told me that he knew nothing of the 

 matter ; that he could work a press as well 

 as any person, when it was put together, 

 but that the putting it together consti- 

 tuted the particular business of a press- 

 joiner. In this dilemma I recollected that 



