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four geele of them, at the high price of a 
dollara piece; anda fine turkey, weighing 
r7ib. at the fill higher price cf 16 thil- 
lings currency, 12 fhillings fterling. I 
and two others went on board her, and gave 
for three little cheefes, weighing about 4. 
or sib. each, three dollars. They faid, 
they could make that or more of them in 
the Weft Indies. 
On Sunday; the 7th of July; we fell in 
with another American thip, bound for the 
Ifland of St. Domingo. Some of us went 
on board of her, and procured a quantity 
of onions, which hafhed up with falt beef 
and potatoes afforded a very good difh; 
for our geefe and turkies were all eaten. 
But a greater luxury which we had from 
them was a number of American news- pa- 
pers, which you will know how to relifh 
properly, when you have been twe months 
without hearing a wora of what is pafiing 
upon the active and interefting theatre of 
the world. Our fhip, like all other Ame- 
rican fhips from the port of 
which have failed this year, had as many 
paflengers as could be accommodated. 
Some were leaving England from a difgutt 
at the principles and meafures of the Bri- 
tifh miniftry, whilf& perhaps a greater num- 
ber, without concerning themfelves with 
public affairs, bore an involuntary tefti- 
“mony in favour of America, by giving it 
the preference to their native country. 
Political confiderations aGtuated two who 
accompanied us. Mr. ,a furgeon, 
from ; and Dr. —, a phyfi- 
cian, who fpent fome time in America a 
few years fince, but has of Jate refided-in 
England. The fhip we came in is of 
204.tons burthen, and the accommedatiens 
are fuperior to what we often find in mer- 
chant fhips. Adjoining to the cabin are 
two ftate rooms or clofets, of about fix 
feet long and eight feet broad. Mr. 
and his wife occtpied one of them, and 
the other was filled by myielf and wife, 
the young woman who went with us as a 
fervant, and three children. But as our 
beds were not above three feet wide, two 
full-grown perfons could not be in the 
fame, but by means of one lying at the 
top and the other at the bottom. And, 
indeed, it is not defireable to have much 
bed-room, as the ihaking of the veffel will 
unavoidably beat one from fide to fide. 
The greateft inconvenience we felt was a 
want of frefh air: but this was pretty well 




remedied by keeping the door open, and ° 
making a {mall hole on the oppofite fide 
of the room ; and, except in bad weather, 
no one objected to having the cabin-win- 
dows up. As the weather grew warmer 
.ferable to one in a ftate-room. 
Briftol, ° 
Letters from Mr. Toulmin of Kentucky. | [March t; 
than we had been accuftomed to feel in- 
England, many of us flept either in the 
open air upon deck, or on the cabin floor, 
and I know not that any one fuffered any. 
inconvenience fron: fo doing, even though 
he lay upon nothing but a blanket. When 
the heat was firft experienced, I found my- 
felf very reftlefs during the night : but ap-. 
prehending, that it arofe as much from the 
want of exercife as fromheat, I bathed juft 
before I went to bed, by havinga bucket or 
two of water thrown upon me, which had 
the defired effet, fo that I flept very well. 
This practice I continued ail the time E 
was on board, and many others did the 
fame. Befides the ftate-rooms, there were 
two births in the cabin, and alittle one in 
which our eldeft child flept, together with 
a hammock-{wing from the top. For a 
fingle perfon, I think, a cabin-birth is pre- 
As our 
cabin paffengers amounted inall to fifteen, 
three gentlemen were obliged to fleep in 
the fteerage, a part of which was divided 
off from that occupied by the failors for 
the accommodation of pafflengers. The 
price which they paid for their paflage was 
the fame, I believe, as what the reft of us 
gave, 2ol. fterling, finding our own wine 
and bedding. I paid 5 guineas a piece for 
three of our children, the eldeft of whom 
was under five years of age. Nothing was 
charged for the youngeft, and only ten 
guineas for our fervant, though fhe fared 
in every refpect like ourfelves. Mr. W. 
who failed three days before we did, with 
his wife, eight fons and daughters, and a 
fervant, found his own provifions, and took 
the whole cabin, for which he paid ninety 
guineas. It will be fuppofed, that our 
cabin, a room of about fourteen feet by ten, 
muft have been pretty full with fifteen paf- 
fengers, befides the mate andcaptain, But 
it was very feldom that one half were there 
at once, except at ourmeals. Moft of us 
fpent the greater part of our time upon 
the quarter deck, which extended over one 
half of the fhip, and is always kept per- ° 
fetly clear. Our amufements and em- 
ployments were fuch as {uited our yarious 
taltes and habits. For the firft week, in- 
deed, few were capable of any amufe- 
ment. Some were fo fortunate as to ef- 
cape ficknefs altogether ; but the greater 
part were in a very uncomfortable ftate 
‘for three or four days at leaft. Being 
upon deck and breathing the open air, at- 
forded the moft relief; and I thought 
that thofe who had refolution enough to 
a 
move about a little, got rid of it the © 
fooneit. 
fick fer a few days, appeared to feel it lefs 
than 
The children, though frequently — 
