Imágenes de páginas
PDF
EPUB

tyrant, and has cost them already more than he is worth: -Take him, if you please; I can do without him, and will fight out the rest of the battle, en Républicain—as a Commonwealth's man."

ได้

END OF SUPPLEMENT TO MEMOIRS.

APPENDIX.

APPENDIX

ΤΟ

MEMOIRS.

No. I.

Journal of Occurrences in a Voyage to Philadelphia, &c.

[Referred to in Memoirs, Part I. p. 77.]

JOURNAL of occurrences in my voyage to Philadelphia on board the Berkshire, Henry Clark, master, from London.

Friday, July 22d, 1726.

Yesterday in the afternoon we left London, and came to an anchor off Gravesend about eleven at night. I lay ashore all night, and this morning took a walk up to the Windmill Hill, whence I had an agreeable prospect of the country for about twenty miles round, and two or three reaches of the river with ship's and boats sailing both up and down, and Tilbury Fort on the other side, which commands the river and passage to London. This Gravesend is a cursed biting place; the chief dependence of the people being the advantage they make of imposing upon strangers. If you buy any thing of them, and give half what they ask, you pay twice as much as the thing is worth. Thank God, we shall leave it to-morrow. Saturday, July 23.

This day we weighed anchor and fell down with the tide, there being little or no wind. In the afternoon we had a

a fresh gale, that brought us down to Margate, where we shall lie at anchor this night. Most of the passengers are very sick. Saw several porpoises, &c.

Sunday, July 24.

This morning we weighed anchor, and, coming to the Downs, we set our pilot ashore at Deal and passed through. And now, whilst I write this, sitting upon the quarter-deck, I have methinks one of the pleasantest scenes in the world before me. "Tis a fine clear day, and we are going away before the wind with an easy pleasant gale. We have near fifteen sail of ships in sight, and I may say in company. On the left hand appears the coast of France at a distance, and on the right is the town and castle of Dover, with the green hills and chalky cliffs of England, to which we must now bid farewel.-Albion, farewel!

Monday, July 25.

All the morning calm. Afternoon sprung up a gale at east: blew very hard all night. Saw the Isle of Wight at a distance. Tuesday, July 26.

Contrary winds all day, blowing pretty hard. Saw the Isle

of Wight again in the evening.

Wednesday, July 27.

This morning, the wind blowing very hard at west, we stood in for the land, in order to make some harbor. About noon we took on board a pilot out of a fishing shallop, who brought the ship into Spithead off Portsmouth. The captain, Mr. Denham and myself went on shore, and during the little time we staid I made some observations on the place. Portsmouth has a fine harbor. The entrance is so narrow that you may throw a stone from fort to fort; yet it is near ten fathom deep and bold close to: but within there is room enough for five hundred, or, for aught I know, a thousand sail of ships. The town is strongly fortified, being encompassed

« AnteriorContinuar »