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VOYAGE TO ENGLAND. 
[1814. 
The greased lead brought up brown sand : we now 
viewed ourselves as sailing over the foundation of 
the island of Britain. 
May 1st. At seven, A.M. a Prussian vessel passed 
near us, and at ten, A.M. an English brig, which con- 
firmed the news of the preceding day. At noon, sound- 
ings were found at fifty-five fathoms : at the bottom 
there were shells and round stones. I preached, in 
allusion to the news, from Acts viii. 8. 
2nd. The morning light discovered to us the British 
shore, near the Land's End in Cornwall, which was 
not an unwelcome sight, especially as we had seen 
no land since we left the small island of Ascension on 
the 1 0th of March. Before evening we entered the 
chops of the channel. 
3rd. We were all day beating up channel against 
adverse winds, which increased as the day advanced. 
About one P.M. the Commodore hung out a signal, 
advising all ships who thought they could make Ply- 
mouth harbour to try it, when ours happily effected it ; 
though others of the fleet were obliged to run back for 
Falmouth. At five, P.M. we cast anchor within a mile 
of the town of Plymouth ; but the wind blew so vio' 
lently it was impossible to get ashore, till next day 
about two o'clock in the afternoon, when I once more 
landed on British ground ; and as the Annual Meeting 
of the Missionary Society w as to take place on the fol- 
lowing Wednesday, I took my passage in a London 
