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tercourse with the people, but in a state of health too 

 feeble to allow of his preaching, went on board, Au- 

 gust 11, 1736, to commence his voyage to England. 

 He was detained in Boston, waiting for the ship to 

 undergo repairs, for more than a month. During this 

 time he was treated with great kindness by several re- 

 spectable residents, whose spiritual welfare he labored 

 to promote; preached in several of the churches, and 

 once in a private company ; and on the return of his 

 sickness, so as to cause great suffering and even to en- 

 danger his life, three or four physicians watched over 

 his case with tender solicitude. He was sufficiently 

 recovered to reembark on the 5th of October, and, 

 after a perilous voyage, landed at Deal, on the 3d of 

 December, 1736. On reaching London he was wel- 

 comed to the home of Mr. Charles Rivington, the 

 book-seller, who gave him great cause to rejoice by his 

 account of their Oxford friends. 



Mr. Wesley took leave of his brother on Thursday, 

 the 5th of August, and being disappointed in getting 

 passage to return by the expected time, in the boat of 

 Colonel William Bull, he went out to Ashley Ferry, 

 intending to walk to Port Royal; but Edmund Belin- 

 ger not only provided him a horse, but rode with him 

 ten miles, and sent his son twenty miles farther to 

 Combahee Ferry; whence, having hired horses and a 

 guide, he went to Beaufort, or Port Boyal, the next 

 evening. He took boat Saturday morning, but, the 

 wind being contrary and very high, he did not reach 

 Savannah till Sunday in the afternoon. 



The second visit was made by Mr. Wesley to Charles- 

 ton in order to lay before the Rev. Alexander Garden 

 ■ — who, as commissary of the Bishop of London, had 

 spiritual jurisdiction over the two Carolinas and 



