10 
LETTERS FROM 
A most desolate coast indeed it appeared, 
and had it not been for the very few walled 
enclosures, we might have supposed that we 
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had been passing by the shores of an unin¬ 
habited country. 
Our only fellow-passengers from England, 
two officers of high rank in the army, now 
made their appearance on deck for the first 
time since we had left Falmouth. We have 
found them very intelligent, agreeable asso¬ 
ciates, and though one is the son of a lord, and 
his companion nearly related, I believe, to a 
noble family, their manners are perfectly free 
from haughtiness or self-consequence. Far 
be it from me to insinuate that they are not 
always so affable and condescending to their 
inferiors in rank, but, perhaps , their present 
very agreeable behaviour may be partly at¬ 
tributed to the effects of long-continued and 
most distressing sea-sickness, which has con- 
