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and regular appearance at the table, are a part of the prescribed system. If occasionally prostrated, or beaten off the ground, it is well to return to the charge with an invincible courage. I have some confidence in this course. At all events, my own sad experience on the outward voyage was so slightly repeated, that I gained the envied appellation of a &quot;good sailor.&quot;

Pleasant society we found among all on board, though my own more immediate circle was composed of Mr. Bates, the celebrated banker from London, with his lady, both natives of New England ; Miss Jaudon, of Philadelphia ; Rev. Dr. Wayland, President of Brown University; Hon. Isaac Davis, of Worcester; and Sir Joseph De Courcey Laffan, a baronet of Irish extraction, who having explored the Eastern Continents, proposed, by visiting America, to &quot; put a girdle round the globe.&quot; I mention these names thus particularly, because com munity in danger was soon to lay the foundation of a more lasting remembrance, and a deeper trust in the One Almighty Friend.

The morning of Sunday, April 18th, was serene and cold. Walking on the deck, before breakfast, I could not but imagine that I detected the latent chill of ice in the atmosphere ; but the apprehension was not ad mitted by those who had more knowledge of those watery regions than myself. Our noble ship, The Great Western, vigorously pursued her way, and the deep, slightly agitated and strongly colored, was intensely beautiful.

We had divine worship in the saloon, and the dead-

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