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of fetting our feet, again, upon terra firma was 

 more exquifite than I can exprefs ; and it was 

 highly augmented by the novelty that fur- 

 rounded us. The houfes, the ftreets, the 

 people, the fruit, fifh, and vegetables, the 

 trees, the fields, every thing before us, was 

 new. The very means of labour and amufe- 

 ment were novel, and all combined to indicate 

 the change we had made — all befpake our re- 

 moval from a northern to a tropical latitude. 

 We gazed on all we met, and all we paffed. 

 Objedls which, at other moments, had been 

 trifling and unimportant, now called forth 

 our attention. The eye of curiofity fuffered 

 nothing to efcape. Ideas crowded upon our 

 minds in fuch rapid fuccefTion, that the confu- 

 fion of chaos feemed to be renewed. The 

 univerfal metamorphofis that furrounded us 

 prevented our digefting the fcene, which pre- 

 fentcd itfelf, into any thing of order or ar- 

 rangement : yet was the whole uncommonly 

 gratifying ; and, without being able to dif- 

 crlminate, we contemplated. In a fort of 

 pleafing reverie, this feeming change of 

 worlds. Complex as are the feelings of fuch 

 a moment, I have often wiflied that they 



