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far lefs fatigue than ourfelves* Still our Eu- 

 ropean feelings forced upon us the wifli 

 that either they had been accommodated with 

 mules, or we had difpenfed with their at- 

 tendance ; and it will require a much longer 

 refidence, amidft this new order of things, 

 before we fhall be able to perfuade ourfelves 

 that our fenfe of difquietude was only a 

 mifplaced humanity. 



Upon reaching the Lord Sheffield we 

 experienced fome diminution of our plea- 

 furable feelings, by hearing that the Belfafl: 

 tranfport, with troops, was taken and carried 

 into Guadalope ; which intelligence had 

 been brought by the captain of an American 

 1 (hip, who had been detained by the captors 

 while they removed the prifoners. 



I ihould have told you that In the courfe 

 of our long ride we had the opportunity of 

 feeing a very extenfive variety of the vegeta- 

 ble productions of the tropical world ; and 

 that we met with multitudes of trees, ihrubs, 

 and plants, that were not before familiar to 

 U8^ — and many which were wholly new 



