The Life of Rev John Murray Author:John Murray Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Arrival in England, and further Progress of the inexperienced Traveller. Hail, native Isle, for deeds of worth renowned, By Statesmen, Patriot... more »s, Poets, Heroes crowned; For thee, my friends, my weeping friends, I leave, To thy blest arms, thy wandering son receive. I Now began a new era of my melancholy life. Losing sight of land, I again retired to my cabin: alas! 'busy thought was too busy for my peace.' Launched upon the wide ocean, I was spetding to a country, my native country indeed; but a country, in which I could boast neither relation, nor friend, not even a single acquaintance. I was quitting a country, in which I had both relations and friends, with many pleasant acquaintances: yet this consideration did not much depress me; for although my heart was pained, exquisitely pained, when. I reflected on those I was leaving, yet I was in raptures at the thought of England. I promised.myself every thing pleasing in England; yet, in my most visionary moments, I could not name a source, from which I could rationally expect establishment, or even temporary gratification. Several gentlemen were in the cabin, who took kind notice of me; they asked me no questions, so I was not embarrassed; but they contributed to render my passage agreeable, which, however, was very short; for the identical passage, which, when I accompanied my father, consumed full nine weeks, was now performed in three days; but, exempted from those fears, and that nausea, which sometimes afflict fresh-water sailors, I was rather pleased with the. rapidity of our passage. AVe dropped anchor in Bristol channel; I was charmed with an opportunity of going ashore at Pill, and once more greeting the good old lady, that had many years before, so tenderly compassionated me when I returned, as one f...« less