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I never witnessed severer gales. It was necessary to keep the broad axe sharp, when the ship was lying to, in case she should go on her beam ends; that we might cut away her weather rigging or the masts, in order to enable her to get upon her legs again.

And now to the keeping of that Great Being, whose protecting arm extends over land and sea, I commend myself and my readers.”

A. J. M.

TRAVELS

FOUR YEARS AND A HALF

IN THE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA;

DURING 1798, 1799, 1800, 1801, and 1802.

DEDICATED BY PERMISSION TO

THOMAS JEFFERSON, Esq.

PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

BY JOHN DAVIS.

Je ne connais sur la machine ronde

Bien que deux peuples differens:

Savoir les hommes bons, & les hommes mechants.

BEAUMARCHAIS.

LONDON:

OLD ET T. OSTELL, AVE-MAKIA-LANE, AND T. HURST, PATER-NOSTER-ROW; B. DUGDALE, AND J. JONES, DUBLIN; AND B. CARITAT, NEW-YORK;

TOR

EDWARDS, PRINTER, BROAD-STREET, BRISTOL.

1803.

SIR,

BANKS OF THE OCCOQUAN
August 31, 1801.

IN frequent journeyings through your country, I have made remarks on the character, the customs and manners of the people; these remarks I purpose to systematize into a Volume, and to you I should be happy to be allowed the honour of dedicating them. The object of my speculations has been Human Nature; speculations that will lead the reader to the contemplation of his own manners, and enable him to compare his condition with that of other

men.

In my uncertain peregrinations, I have entered with equal interest the mud-hut of the negro, and the loghouse of the planter; I have alike communed with the slave who wields the hoe, and the task-master who imposes his labour. My motto has been invariably Homo sum! humani nihil a me alienum puto, and after saying this, whatever I were to say more, would be idle declamation.

I am, SIR,

Your most obedient, most humble Servant,

JOHN DAVIS

THOMAS JEFFERSON, Esq.

President of the United States

of America, Monticello,

Virginia.

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