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Excerpt from Travels Through the United States of North America, the Country of the Iroquois, and Upper Canada, in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797, Vol. 3 One of thofe gentlemen from whom I had ex perienced the greatefi civilities at Charlefion, invited me to give the preference to a fmall veffel that was configned to him, which be longed to one of his friends at Norfolk, and? Which was to fail in two days. This veffel was not to be laden, to carry no other patien gers than the owner's nephew and myfelf, and to take us in three days to Norfolk. Al though I difliked the veffel on account of her finall fize, as {he was but of twenty-nine tons burden, yet the advantage of the other cir cumftances counterbalanced that objeetion, and I thankfully accepted the offer: but, in fiead of failing at the expiration of two days, {he was delayed fix days longer infiead of having no cargo, {he was laden with cafits of rice even to the very cabin infiead of a fingle fellow-pafl'enger, there were four: it Read of being a good fairer, {he was as flow as a Dutch dogger: the captain was igno rant, lazy, carelcfs, and unacquainted with the difficult coafl of north-carolina. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.