negroes and cotton-fields; and the innovations of the Trustees on his mode of tuition, had come to the determination of seeking another people, and opening a school of his own.

When I, therefore, waved my hand on board the vessel to my friend, who stood on the wharf with the calm inhabitants of Waccamaw, my heart was rather elated with joy at the expectation of soon meeting him at New York, than depressed with sorrowful emotions to separate from him at George-town.

Heaven prosper you, my dear fellow, said Mr. George. But your impending gales of wind, and rolling of the vessel, will excite little sympathy, because I shall reflect you are again in your own element. Yet shall I never cease exclaiming, Sic te diva potens Cypri, &c., till you give me a missive that acquaints me with your safe landing. Adieu! I will soon shake you by the hand again in a region less unhealthy, less inhospitable, and less unclassical.

The sails of the vessel were now distended by a breeze that was both favourable and fresh. We shaped our course out of the harbour; the waves roared around the bark; and in half an hour she appeared to the eye of the beholder from land a white speck only on the

ocean.

Our passengers were composed of a Georgian saddle-maker, a Quaker, and three

vagrants from New England.* Of these the Georgian was an original character. His very figure was the title-page of a joke, for never before did I behold such a bed-presser, such a horseback-breaker, such a huge hill of flesh. He exulted in his bulk, and informed us, that on first coming on board he weighed two hundred and seventy-five pounds.

The wind changed off Cape Hatteras to the North East, from which quarter it blew a tremendous gale. We lay-to in a most miserable condition, wet, sick, and unable to cook any food. I now sighed for Coosohatchie, the company of my pupils, and my walks in the woods; but my ambition of travel struggled over my weakness, and I sought refuge in jollity with my portly companion.

What, Sir, said he, is your opinion of this wind? It is only, answered I, a top-gallantbreeze. Only a top-gallant-breeze! exclaimed the Captain, it is enough to blow the devil's horns off! A few minutes after a sea struck the vessel in the stern, and, staving in the dead lights, nearly overwhelmed the sadler, who was reposing in the aftermost berth; but, how

[* Cf. Schoepf, Reise &c. 1788, II, 196,—“ Dass sie [New Englanders] aber mit den Einwohnern von Nordkarolina einen, wie es scheint, etwas stärkern Verkehr treiben, mochte ausser den für beyde Theile entspringenden Vortheilen und Bequemlichkeiten, auch noch diese besondere Veranlassung haben, dass sehr viele Neuengländische Emigranten sich in Nordkarolina niedergelassen haben."]

ever incommoded by his trunk of humours, he carried himself most nimbly towards the cabin-door; running and roaring, and roaring and running, till he got upon deck.

The next morning the sun shone down the sky light into the cabin. We were all in our beds, and a silence had prevailed several hours, when Mr. Waters, charmed with its rays, exclaimed, "Great luminary of the world! welcome to my sight! No more shall I wonder "that thou art worshipped by the heathen."

The gale having abated, we prosecuted our voyage, and on the morning of the 5th of February, 1800, saw the high land of the Jerseys. As the day advanced we could distinguish the light-house on Sandy-Hook, and with a pleasant breeze were wafted to the wharves of New-York.

CHAP. V.

Engagements at New-York.-An American Author.-Mr. George arrives at New-York.— Epistolary Correspondence.-A Visit to Long Island. The Classical Elegance of the NewYork Reviewers exhibited.-Journey to the City of Washington.

My first care on returning to New-York was

to deliver a letter I had been favoured with from Mr. Spierin, to his friend Bishop Moore. I waited on the Bishop most opportunely, for the preceding day he had been applied to by an opulent merchant to procure a Tutor for his children, and I was a Tutor by trade.

The Bishop introduced me to Mr. Ludlow and his lady, who received me with formality; but whose conversation I thought interesting, because they offered me a handsome salary to educate their children. In the woods of Carolina, I had received eighty guineas a year; but Mr. Ludlow proposed a hundred.

I therefore exchanged my lodgings with Major Howe for an elegant structure in Broadway,* and took possession of a chamber that was worthy to lodge a Prince.

[* Cf. Barber and Howe's Historical Collections, p. 315"The fashionable part of the city, or west end of the town, was [1800] in Wall and Pine streets, between Broadway and Pearl, Pearl from Hanover Square to John-Street, along

My pupils were few for the salary I enjoyed. I had only three boys, Robert, Ferdinand, and Edward, (I delight to give their names *) who possessed much suavity of manners, and volubility of tongue. They learned very well when disposed to learn their books; for, as I was restricted to practice only blandishments, their application was never imposed.

The author of Arthur Mervyn, living at New-York, I sought acquaintance with a man who had acquired so much intellectual renown. I found Mr. Brown quite in the costume of an author,† embodying virtue in a new novel, and making his pen fly before him.

Mr. Brown occupied a dismal room in a dismal street. I asked him whether a view of nature would not be more propitious to composition; or whether he should not write with more facility were his window to command the prospect of the Lake of Geneva.-Sir, said he, good pens, thick paper, and ink well diluted, would facilitate my composition more

State-Street and a part of Broadway, below Wall-Street." Population, 1798, about 50,000.

The situation of the house identifies Mr. Ludlow-either Thomas Ludlow or Daniel Ludlow. Cf. Wilson, Memorial History of New York, Vol. III, p. 151. The most famous of the various Ludlow houses at that time was the Carey Ludlow house, State Street, facing the Battery, No. 9.]

[* Cf. Vicar of Wakefield, ch. XI.]

By the costume of an author I imply a great coat and shoes down at heel.