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so fast as we could have wished, yet we went a far distance each
day. Today I am on Guard, + am viewing transparently many of
the pleasent excurshings I have hade both at home + abroade, but
a sad and wearisome few months I must pass on board of a small
+ crowded ship with nothing to be seen evening nor morning but
the boundless waves [rotting?] + growning round our little bark.
There is no green Hill or Field neer no cheery cottage nor smilling family
playing in the glossy wood or flowing breaks of some small strame, all
leis in our [heart?], or land we are proseeding to.

Although we worry much when we look to the length of [illegible?]
months to come, yet when we look back the same length looks like
only a few hours of our past wants, and long to awe at the place we left
some 11 or 12 years ago, + sweet our old friends but who knows if their friend-
-ship will be as when we left,

When alone on the wide Osain, when the sun is eather as
appering or disappering, when peasing the lonly dakes
of our Ship, as she rides over the fearse waves

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