131 



dark, and gloomy, and her general appearance 

 conveys nothing of neathefs nor arrangement, 

 but all about her looks fombre^ unclean, and 

 comfortlefs. The Lord Sheffield we have 

 not yet feen, but her captain tells us £he is a 

 faft failing fliip, and fitted up in a fuperior 

 ftyle, with her cabin neat, light, and lively 

 as a " drawing-room." We do not give 

 implicit confidence to the report of one fo 

 ftrongly interefled in fpeaking her fair ; but 

 the probabilities are much in her favor, fhe 

 being a Wefl India trader, and, no doubt, 

 better fitted for pafTengers, and better adapted, 

 in all refpeds, for a tropical climate. The 

 George and Bridget is a large Baltic timber 

 fhip, and, of courfe, has not had the fame oc« 

 cafion either for conveying or accommodating 

 pafTengers* 



Mafler and myfelf have alfo the prof- 

 pe£t of a further advantage in the fociety of 

 our friendly infpedor Mr. Weir, who intends 

 to take his birth on board the Lord Sheffield. 

 Should we be fortunate enough thus to form 

 a trio, we fhall have far lefs caufe to feel 

 our regretted feparation than our friends 



K 2 



