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You will feel that, with refped to dur- 

 felves, it were difhcult to acknowledge fimilar 

 advantages from the feparation of our happy 

 and fecial mefs, although we are, likewife, 

 obliged to make a divifion of our flores, and 

 mefs-apparatus, being now inftruded to make 

 the voyage in different fhips. This is matter 

 of high regret to us all, and the more fo, as 

 we had been long enough together to become 

 well acquainted, and happy in each other's 

 fociety, befides having jointly provided our- 

 felves for the voyage. But it confifts with 

 the many uncertainties that furround us, and 

 is quite within the limits of our expedta- 

 tion. 



We have received orders to repair, two 

 of us to the George and Bridget, and tw6 

 to the Lord Sheffield: Mafter and myfelf feel 

 ourfelves fortunate in being appointed to the 

 latter, for we had been on board the George 

 and Bridget, and had not acquired any ftrong 

 prediledion in her favor. She we^rs the 

 appearance of a heavy, dull-failing velTel 

 and feems not to offer any thing fupcrior in 

 her accommodations. The cabin is deep^ 



