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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1796 Excerpt: ...ful, which experience rather increases than (damps; by giying the indulgence of feeling the san&?n P FJrpn.. /LETTER XI.: '.. '-Jj. I ' ' - I' L- T Portoer, the little haven I mentioned,1 soon after I finished my last letter. The fe? was rough; and I perceived that our pilot was right not to venture farther during a hazy night. We had agreed to pay sous dollars for a boat from Helgeraac. 1 men tion the sum, because the would demartcf rwice as much from a Granger; I wa$ obliged to pay fifteen for the otte i hired a? Stromstad. When we were ready td set OuT, ! our boatman offered to return a dollar, ahi3 let us go in one of the boats ofthe place, the pilot who lived there being better acquainted with the coast. He only demanded a dollar and half, which wa6 reasonable, I found him a civil and rather intelligent man: he was in the american service several years during the revolution, I soon perceived that an experienced mariner was necessary to guide us; for we were continually obliged to tack about, to' avoid the rocks, which, scarcely reaching to the surface of the water, could only be discoK 2 vered vered by the breaking of the waves over them. The view of this wild coast, as we failed along it, afforded me a continual subject for meditation. I anticipated the future improvement of the world, and observed how much man had still to do, to obtain of the' earth all it could yield. I even carried my speculations so far as to advance a million or two of years to the moment when the earth would perhaps be so perfectly cultivated, and so completely peopled, as to render it necessary to inhabit every foot; yes; these bleak shores. Imagination went still; farther, and pictured the.state of man when the earth could ...

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