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anxious fcene, were many other circumftances 

 which increafed the general crowd and con- 

 fufion of the pidlure ; fuch as multitudes 

 preffing into, and overflowing the fhops — 

 people runuing agalnft, or tumbling over each 

 other upon the flreets — loud difputes and 

 quarrelling — the fadnefs of parting — greet- 

 ings of friends, unexpededly met, and as 

 fuddenly about to feparate — failors quitting 

 their trulls — drunkards reeling — boatmen 

 wrangling — boats overloaded or upfet — the 

 tide beating in heavy fprays upon the fliore— • 

 perfons running and hurrying in every di- 

 redion, for fomething new, or fomething 

 forgot — fome curfing the boatmen for not 

 pufhing off with more fpeed, and others be- 

 feeching and imploring them to flop a minute 

 longer. 



Such was the flate In which we left Portf- 

 mouth, after a refidence of three weeks, du- 

 ring which time we had regarded it as a dull, 

 inanimate place ; but the change was fudden, 

 and will be only tranfient : the hurry and 

 tumult will vanifh with the failing of the 

 fleet, and the town will relapfe into its tran- 



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