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when he participated with me in the fatigues 
and enjoyments of a tour through the north of 
Scotland and the Orkney Islands, that I was most 
anxious here to possess his society. We were 
therefore not a little gratified on having word 
brought to us at two o’clock this morning, that 
a vessel was beating into the bay, and that she 
was, in all probability, the Flora. On a nearer 
approach we were certain of her being so; but it 
was not till four in the afternoon, when she came 
to an anchor, that I had the disappointment to 
learn from the captain that there was neither Mr. 
Borrer on board, nor a single letter from any of 
my friends in England. The vexation of such a 
disappointment could not but be severely felt; but 
the additional regret caused by the idea of my 
being forgotten by those, whose memory I che*- 
rished most fondly when separated from them by 
such a distance, was done away when I found that 
the Flora had left Gravesend only two days after 
us, and had been detained ever since on her pas¬ 
sage, which occupied no less than seven weeks. 
Tuesday, This, which was the day* appointed 
Ju b f or catching of the salmon in the 
Lax Elbe, at a place near its confluence with the 
* It is to be observed, that for a few days previous to this, 
nets had been placed at the mouth of the river, to prevent the 
