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, who equally 
desired to be acquainted with their young American relative, the 
only remaining son of a deceased beloved brother. 
Accordingly, on the 10th of May, 1820, he embarked at New 
York, for the port of Liverpool, to visit them, agreeably to the 
Watmest invitations from his uncle, Mr. James Morton of Clon- 
pel, the same gentleman to whom, as his “ Venerable Uncle,” he 
afterwards gratefully dedicated the most considerable of all his 
Works, the Crania Americana. 
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nets, which could not but have a salutary influence upon him, 
and doubtless tended to impart to his own manners something 
Peculiarly dignified, tempered. by an extreme affability and®urban- 
ity, Which ever afterwards distinguished him asa gentleman. 
r diary of his proceedings, which Ce was ~ 
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hy atlentive observer, not only of events and of nature, but of 
'S Own short-comings and his deficiencies in manners, in ad- 
Arf and his views of the world as it is. His diary shows him : 
'o have had, even at that time, a spirit earnestly engaged wi 
welt ain improving and strengthening its faculties, and rightly — : 
me. 
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Itwo. ton had reached Clonmel on the 14th of 
Bene, the 20th of 
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