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under circumftances which would render it 

 probable that we fhould never meet again. 



This idea might lead me to expatiate very 

 painfully upon the fituation of multitudes 

 around me. But to indulge in fuch feelings 

 would not be opportune: whatever refle&ion 

 may teach — or whatever may be the event of 

 the great fcene before us, with refped to in- 

 dividuals, Itruft that every Briton, embarked in 

 j:he caufe, will meet, with all the firmnefs of his 

 nation's charader, whatever is deftined to be 

 his fate in wan 



I do not recoiled to have noted to you 

 in any former letter the great fondnefs which 

 the negroes have for the water, and their fin- 

 gular addrefs and expertnefs in moving upon 

 that element. In one of our late walks we 

 witnefled a fcene ftrongly in proof of this, hav- 

 ing met with a Have who was amufing him- 

 felf by exercifes of uncommon agility in the 

 fea. Not an otter, nor a beaver, nor fcarcely 

 a dolphin could appear more in his element. 

 He was quite at play in the water, and di- 

 verting himfelf in all kinds of antic tricks, and 

 gambols. He dived to the bottom — fwam 



