JOURNAL 



OF A 



WEST INDIA PROPRIETOR. 



" Nunc alio patriam quaero sub sole jacentem." — Virgil. 



1815. November 8. (Wednesd^^^ 



I left London, and reached Gravesend at 

 nine in the morning, having been taught to ex- 

 pect our sailing in a few hours; But although 

 the vessel left the Docks on Saturday, she did 

 not reach this place till three o'clock on Thurs- 

 day, the 9th. The captain now tells me, that we 

 may expect to sail certainly in the afternoon of 

 to-morrow, the 10th. I expect the ship's cabin 

 to gain greatly by my two days' residence at the 

 (t ##### which nothing can exceed for 



noise, dirt, and dulness. Eloisa would never have 

 established " blacl^rielancholy" at the Paraclete as 

 its favourite residence, if she had happened to pass 

 three days at an inn at Gravesend : nowhere else 

 did I ever see the sky look so dingy, and the river 



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