One goes abroad for mercrading,
Anotays to keep ry from invading,
A thy lading.
to an Ameri visiting Europe, to make is an excellent preparative. temporary absence of s produces a state of mind peculiarly ?tted to receive ne space of ers t separate teransition by ion of one try blend almost imperceptibly you lose sig, all is vacy, until you step on te s oo tle and ies of another world.
In travelling by land tinuity of se, and a ected succession of persons and is, t carry on tory of life, and lessen t of absend separation.
e drag, it is true, "a lengt; at eac trace it back link by link; and t still grapples us to a o makes us scious of being cast loose from ttled life, a adrift upon a doubtful interposes a gulf, not merely imaginary, but real, beto tempest, and fear, and uainty, rendering distance palpable, aurn precarious.
Suc least, blue lines of my native land fade a seemed as if I s s, and ime for meditation, before I opened another.
t land, too, o me in life; udes mig--ake pla me, before I s it again! ell, o s of existence; or o revisit the ses of his childhood?
I said, t at sea all is vacy; I s to one given to day-dreaming, and fond of losing s for meditation; but tend to abstract ted to loll over ter-railing or climb to top, of a calm day, and muse fetranquil bosom of a summers sea; to gaze upon t peering above tion of my oo cly undulating billoo die ahose happy shores.
tion of mingled security and a, on ters of t tumbling about ting, like a spectre, ters. My imagination I ery roam its faters t lurk among tions of tasms t sales of ?shermen and sailors.
Sometimes a distant sail, gliding along tioing t of a o rejoin t mass of existence! a glorious mo of ion; o union; abliserco terile regions of t of knoies of cultivated life; and ogettered portions of to able barrier.
e one day descried some s drifting at a distance.
At sea, every t breaks tony of ttracts attention. It proved to be t of a s must ely eo to prevent trace by ly drifted about for many monters of sened about it, and long sea-ed at its sides. But ruggle tempest--tening amoory of their end.
siged after t s prayers offered up at ted ?reside of en ress, to catcelligence of tation darkened into ay--ay into dread--and dread into despair! Alas! not oo may ever return for love to c may ever be kno s, "and was never ;
t of to many dismal aes. ticularly to been fair, began to look ening, and gave indications of one of torms t imes break in upon ty of a summer voyage. As round t of a lamp, in t made tly, everyone ale of ser. I icularly struck oed by tain:
"As I ; said ;in a ?out s prevail in ts re impossible for us to see far aime; but at nig distinguis at t lig t-ant co look out for ?somed to anc a great rate ter. Suddenly tc tered before ed to a ligruck amids of our vessel, bore c started from to be s bore it to our ears, s us out of all furt t cry! It ime before t, surned, as nearly as o t for several ened if --we never saw or ;
I fess tories, for a time, put ao all my ?ne faorm increased . to tremendous fusion. to deep. At times t asunder by ?asning e of ers, and aggering and plunging among t seemed miraculous t so ter; buried beimes an impending surge appeared ready to overerous movement of the shock.
ired to my , till followed me.
tling of ts; training and groaning of bulkering sea, ing prison, seeking f of a nail, t give rance.
A ?ne day, ranquil sea and fav breeze, soon put all tions to ?ig is impossible to resist t sea. in all y, , so lord it over the deep!
I mig is almost a tinual reverie--but it is time to get to shore.
It ; - t form an idea of tions of Europe.
tions is teeming udious years have pondered.
From t time, until t of arrival, it . t pros along t; tretto tains too ts of inteerest. As red telescope. My eye d o cottages, rim ss. I saaper spire of a village ceristic of England.
tide and to e at oo ants of friends or relations. I could distinguis to less air. into s; ling tfully, and o and fro, a small spaporary importaed cations intercnize eacicularly noticed one youing demeanor. S o catce. Sed and sad; es tress for of late aken to see tenance so ed, so pale, so gly, t it ion did n ted on ures: it read, at once, a sood agony.
All noings of acquaintaings of friends--tations of men of business. I alone ary and idle. I o meet, no co receive. I stepped upon t felt t I ranger in the land.
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