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described our embarkation at Greenock, on board the steanificant toith a steeple;--the

stupendous rock of Du at Glasgow;--nificence of that opulent

metropolis of the muslin manufacturers; my brother's remark, that the

punch-bowls on the roofs of the Infirmary, the Museum, and the Trades

Hall, were emblematic of the universal estimation in which that

celebrated rees--learned, commercial,

and even h-- the Castle, and the visionary lake which htly seen from the s of Princes Street, between the Old and New

Town, reflecting the lights of the lofty city beyond--with a thousand

other delightful and ro that the Edinburgh folk should be, as they think themselves,

the most accomplished people in the world But, alas! from the moment I

placed my foot on board that cruel vessel, of which the very idea is

anguish, all thoughts were sed up in suffering-sed, did I

say? Ah, ination alone

can do justice to the subject Not, however, to dwell on what is past,

during the whole tie from Leith, I was unable to think,

far less to write; and, although there was a handsoer, I could not even listen to the elegant

compliments which he seeot the better of his own sickness Neither love nor valour can

withstand the influence of that sea-demon The interruption thus

occasioned to my observations made me destroy my journal, and I have now

to write to you only about London--only about London! What an expression

for this human universe, as my brother calls it, as if my weak feminine

pen were equal to the stupendous theme!