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change, which, when completed, will be a handsome building. 
The post-office is already placed in its lower story. Wall street 
is the street in which the most commercial business is done, and 
in which most of the banks stand; it is to be regretted that it is 
one of the ugliest streets in the city. 
After having paid some farewell visits, I passed a part of my 
last evening in America, in a very agreeable manner in the house 
of Mrs. Bell. It is the most agreeable house for strangers in 
New York, in which they always meet with a very good recep¬ 
tion. I enjoyed also, for several hours, the company of Mr. Bow- 
doin, and of Colonel Jones, the brother-in-law of Governor 
Clinton. 
CHAPTER XXVII. 
Return Voyage from New York to Liverpool . 
TO my great and sincere regret, the hour at length arrived 
when I was constrained to leave this happy and prosperous land, 
in which I had seen and learned so much, and in which much 
more still remained to be seen and learned: sed fata trahunt 
hominem! 
On the 16 th of June, at ten, A. M., I proceeded to Whitehall, 
the southernmost point of the battery, accompanied by Mr. Zim- 
mermann, Mr. George Belden, and Mr. Armstrong, the American 
Consul at Port-auJPrince. Close alongside the wharf, the steam¬ 
boat Nautilus, which plies between New York and Staten Island, 
lay ready to take passengers on board the Pacific, one of the Li¬ 
verpool and New York packets, on board of which I had taken 
passage for Europe. The Pacific had on thp preceding day, sailed 
down to the quarantine ground. The gentlemen above named 
accompaned me to the vessel. We were scarcely on board the 
steam-boat before she departed on her trip. She was tolerably 
crowded, inasmuch as she not only carried the Pacific’s passen¬ 
gers, but likewise their friends, who accompanied them, and 
the passengers for Staten Island. The rain fell in torrents, and 
the passage was rather unpleasant. 
After stopping a few moments at Staten Island to land some 
passengers, we reached the Pacific in an hour. The wind being 
contrary, the ship could not put to sea. Not far from us lay the 
packet ship Edward Quesnell, which had left New York the 
day previous, and likewise, owing to head winds, could not pro- 
