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On the fourteenth day after the departure of the farass, as appointed to officiate during the

absence of the Doctor, received the following letter frole It would appear that the young advocate is not so

solid in the head as some of his elder brethren at the Bar; and therefore

hts and observations must be taken with an allowance on

the score of his youth

LETTER IV

Andrew Pringle, Esq, Advocate, to the Rev Charles Snodgrass

LONDON

MY DEAR FRIEND--We have at last reached London, after a store of

seven days The acco in

port, and in fine weather, I doubt not, is comfortable, even at sea; but

in February, and in such visitations of the powers of the air as we have

endured, a balloon must be a far better vehicle than all the vessels that

have been constructed for passengers since the time of Noah In the

first place, the waves of the at but "thin air"; and I areeable; then the speed of the balloon is so reater,--and it