LONG JOURNEY. 3 



of people, vieing with each other in the 

 richness or gaudiness of their attire, 

 flocked at the risk of their lives to wit- 

 ness this unprecedented exhibition, as 

 they have since done to see the perform- 

 ance of some favourite actor, and as they 

 now do to listen to a popular preacher 

 all for the same reason, to the same 

 purpose, and with the same effect. 



I have been thus particular in record- 

 ing this remarkable variation in our tem- 

 perate climate, because circumstances called 

 me a distance of nearly 500 miles 

 from home, a journey at that time 

 requiring some little stamina and exer- 

 tion. 



My next brother, about three years 

 younger than myself, had chosen to be 

 a printer ; he was accordingly appren- 

 ticed to the Messrs. Hansard, the king's 

 printers ; and his time having nearly 

 expired, it was thought advisable, to 



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