time. So we arrived opposite Staten island on Saturday evening, just six weeks after we came out of the docks at Liverpool. Here the prospect is rather romantic, yet beautiful. Romantic-wild with cliffs and hills, barren land and fruitful fields: one piece rising above another, and the hindmost being elevated sufficiently to look into the sea and commanding in prospect New York, about six or eight miles distant from us. Beautifulhouses and cottages before which there are green pieces of grass-plat inclosed, the houses also neatly constructed and painted as white as chalk. In one direction there are three hospitals, as it were on three hills, rising above the cottages that stand before them the hospitals being distant from each other about two or three hundred yards and not only so, but they are painted white and beautifully adorned with round pillars, and colonnades above each other in front. No. IX. The passengers commanded to wash all their linen before landing.— The difficulties of the day following in removing from vessel to vessel, and landing to have our goods inspected, and afterwards proceeding to New York.-Our short stay in the city on account of the cholera, &c. CESSATION from labor is pleasant to the heavy laden, and rest is sweet to a laboring man; but this is a day of confusion after a tedious journey. In consequence of the small pox breaking out after we left Liverpool, there was a command given that all the linen and blankets belonging to the passengers should be washed before they went to land. So here was about six weeks' linen for about a hundred and sixty or seventy people to be washed, without a copper or furnace to heat the water; and which was to be heated in kettles, saucepans, &c., over a common grate on deck. This wants no comment. No such drying yard I presume could be seen in England as this scene afterwards exhibited-the sailors drawing up lines in all directions, perhaps twenty feet high, some over the vessel and some over the sea. Old men and women, young men and maidens, all united in the important labor. O that my heart was fixed, and that I could say, "Thou, O Lord, in tender love, Dost all my burdens bear. "Calm on tumult's wheel I sit, 'Midst busy multitudes alone, Sweetly waiting at thy feet, Till all thy will be done." Tuesday, 31. Last evening we were informed that we must rise early, and that a vessel would come to take us forward; from whence we proceeded to Staten Island to put goods, boxes, &c., on shore to be 46 FROM ENGLAND TO NEW YORK. inspected by the doctor, and to have every box, bed, parcel, &c., laid open to the custom-house officer. What a day's labor was this!—that is, of so many people and families packing up every article, hauling them first on deck and then on another vessel-with much labor landing them on the island, spreading them open, then hauling them on the vessel a second time and proceeding to New York! However, about three or four o'clock in the afternoon we landed at New York, and first set our feet on the shore in America. The cholera being in New York, several of us were disposed to go forward; not supposing we could run away from this contagious disease, and yet thinking it prudent probably not to run into it. Hence I saw but little of the city: nevertheless what little part I reviewed led me to think that many of the buildings were equal to many in London, and that the signboards were as neatly painted, though the houses in general are not built in so uniform a manner as those built in the west end of the town within these fifty years last past. In some places there are rows of trees planted in the streets; some standing in the pavement, which tempers the heat at noonday, and which makes the habitations pleasant for those who dwell in them. This makes many villages and towns very pleasant, and what is more common and necessary in America than in England. Indeed we are favored: the weather being cool and shady, and in that respect for aught I know as pleasant as it is in spring in England. " No. X. Our rapid setting forward for Albany and Ohio.-The scenery and objects beheld on the Hudson river. The weather fine, the scenery grand, and the journey pleasant.-But amidst the happiest circumstances, affliction and death are near at hand. To save time and expense, as well as to avoid presumptuously running into the midst of the cholera, several of us went and slept on the boats which were going to Albany. We did not do this, I presume, because we thought we could run away from this alarming disease, but we did not think it imprudent to keep away from it. I remembered what a young gentleman had said on the Atlantic about the mosquitoes, and hearing one of them or something else after I went to bed, I rather expected them to be troublesome, but I found not much difficulty from this quarter. These things in America are much like the same in England, only more numerous. We are now travelling up the Hudson river, which in some places is as wide as the Thames in London, and in others perhaps much wider. The banks in some places rise by rapid ascent, and in others by a gentle process; in some places more thinly interspersed with trees, putting forth their green foliage and spreading their branches around them, and in other places they are clustered and crowded together like the thick wood. Indeed, there is a diversified scenery of hills and chasms, which is alternately beautified with small and green trees, and pleasant prospects. In one place there are small cottages like hermits' cells, pent up by the hill and the river, apparently inaccessible to travellers; while at some distance there are a few genteeler houses. Sometimes our sight is much limited by the banks of the river, but in other places we have a more extensive vision, where by looking across the country we see mountain rise above mountain at a great distance. What diversified scenery! Mountains, hills, fields, woods, cliffs, and rocks! But where is there any permanent possession in this world? On what rock can we find a place of security for one day? And where are the riches-the durable riches that will not slip through our hands into the possession of others? Are they in possession of the rich in England? the poor could not obtain them. exclusively by the rich and America? No, they are not. knowledge of them? Who? the pure in heart-and the man who has had his heart emptied of this present evil world and filled with God. No if they were, : Are they enjoyed speculating men in Who, then, has any The poor in spirit— The day is fine, the scenery grand, and the journey far more pleasant than when we were on the ocean. There is a fine gale of wind tempering the heat of the sun, which is also shaded with some light and flying clouds-insomuch that we find no inconvenience from heat any more than in England. But in one journey added to another in this way there is |