friendly civilities I have experienced, in common with other strangers,
from its inhabitants, induce me to rank as the most agreeable place I
have visited in the United States: nor am I singular in this opinion,
there being scarcely any traveller I have conversed with, but what gives
it the same preference. Whilst I continue in America it shall be my
place of residence: but my thoughts are solely bent upon returning to my
native land, now dearer to me than ever; and provided that the ice,
which threatens at present to block up the harbour, does not cut off our
communication with the Atlantic, I shall speedily take my departure from
this Continent, well pleased at having seen as much of it as I have
done; but I shall leave it without a sigh, and without entertaining the
slightest wish to revisit it.
FINIS.
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● Transcriber’s Notes:
○ There is a pagination error in the printed book——page 340 is
followed by page 441. There is no discontinuity in the text.
○ Missing or obscured punctuation was silently corrected.
○ Typographical errors were silently corrected.
○ Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation were made consistent only
when a predominant form was found in this book.
○ Text that:
was in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_);.
○ The use of a caret (^) before a letter, or letters, shows that the
following letter or letters was intended to be a superscript, as
in S^t Bartholomew or 10^{th} Century.