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eopocia ; and, ftrange to add, the found of the 

 deftru&iye cannon promifed to be a more 

 healing balm, then the mildeft emollient pre- 

 ferred by the dodor. 



In adverting to the country, from whence 

 I addrefs you, I may remark that circum- 

 stances attended our landing, which were not 

 the moft calculated to create a favorable im^ 

 preffion of the colony. The morning had 

 been clouded, and, it becoming wet, we were 

 completely drenched with rain in the boats, 

 and then fet on fhore in the midft of a heavy 

 {hower. From the landing-place we had 

 nearly a mile to walk to the town \ and fuch a 

 walk, perhaps, could not have been found in any 

 other country*— Holland excepted. From the 

 nature of the road it was almoft impoffible to 

 maintain ourfelves upon our feet for a fingle 

 ftep. Fatigued by heat, we had to drag along 

 in the rain, either ancle-deep in mud, or flip- 

 ping and Aiding about upon a wet furface of 

 clay. 



We arrived at the town in a fadly 

 drenched and befpattered condition ; but here 

 we found our feet relieved by ftepping on a 



