8 INTRODUCTION. 
fo fhort a fpace of time I could not become 
ungrateful, and without emotion lofe fight 
of that beneficent country in which 1 firft 
drew breath. I often caft a fond look on 
thofe happy fliores, which were flill becoming 
more and more diftant. In proportion as they 
receded from me, and as wafted by the wind§ 
1 approached the frozen climates of the north, 
a difmal fadnefs threw a gloom over my 
imagination, and difTipated my conjeftures 
concerning the future. 
After a dangerous and difagreeable pafTage 
we caft anchor in the Texel, about nine or 
ten in the morning, on the I2th of July 
following. 
Being at length arrived in Europe, every- 
thing I faw appeared fo new to me — I fhew- 
ed fo much impatience, haraffed people 
with fo many queftions, and every objefl: 
that prefented itfelf to my view feemed fo 
extraordinary — that I myfelf was an object 
of aftonifhment to all thofe who were around 
nie. My importunities, hov^ever, did not 
always raife the laugh againft me ; and I 
made an ample return, by pertinent i^marks 
on America^ for the information which the 
people 
