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does not forsake it; he only chooses a difi'erent post of activity 

 in its behalf. He assists in extending to a distance the imi- 

 tation of its manners, the consumption of its liandiwork, the 

 advantage of its intercourse, the popularity of its literature and 

 law. 



Not that I pretend to have been governed by any such sub- 

 lime moral motives, when I determined to seek my fortune on 

 a transatlantic shore. Accident determined my destiny. The 

 partner of a house in Stabroek, who was at London in 1798, 

 wished to engage an articled clerk on terms which my friends 

 thought liberal. Fancy and ambition painted, at the termina- 

 tion of a West-Indian voyage, new forms of pleasure and of 

 gain ; and I embarked with delight on board the Comet, 

 Captain Barrow^ at Liverpool, on the 25di December, 1798. 



For many days after we left die Mersey I was much troubled 

 by sea-sickness. This is a phenomenon which no medical man 

 I ever met with, could satisfactorily explain, and the only ad- 

 vantage I have derived from conversation on the subject, was to 

 collect a few facts. Sea-sickness is most likely to occur, if you 

 stand still upon the deck and watch the motion of the sea. If 

 the eyes be closed, so that the dancing of surrounding'objeets 

 cannot be perceived, you are less liable to be sick. If you lie 

 in the horizontal posture, the rocking of the ship is almost im- 

 perceptible; hence the most effectual way of avoiding sea-sick- 



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