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    to an American visiting Europe, to make is an excellent preparative. temporary absence of s produces a state of mind peculiarly ?tted to receive ne space of ers t separate tence. transition by ion of one country blend almost imperceptibly  you lose sig, all is vacancy, until you step on te s once into tle and novelties of another world.

    In travelling by land tinuity of scene, and a connected succession of persons and incidents, t carry on tory of life, and lessen t of absence and separation.

    e drag, it is true, quot;a lengt; at eac trace it back link by link; and  t still grapples us to  a  once. It makes us conscious of being cast loose from ttled life, and sent adrift upon a doubtful  interposes a gulf, not merely imaginary, but real, beto tempest, and fear, and uncertainty, rendering distance palpable, and return precarious.

    Suc least,  blue lines of my native land fade a seemed as if I s concerns, and ime for meditation, before I opened another.

    t land, too, no dear to me in life; udes mig--ake place in me, before I s it again! ell, o s of existence; or o revisit the scenes of his childhood?

    I said, t at sea all is vacancy; I s to one given to day-dreaming, and fond of losing s for meditation; but tend to abstract ted to loll over ter-railing or climb to top, of a calm day, and muse for ogetranquil bosom of a summers sea; to gaze upon t peering above tion of my oo cly undulating billoo die ahose happy shores.

    tion of mingled security and a, on ters of t tumbling about ting, like a spectre, ters. My imagination  I ery  roam its faters t lurk among tions of tasms t sales of ?shermen and sailors.

    Sometimes a distant sail, gliding along tion. eresting t of a o rejoin t mass of existence!  a glorious monument of ion; o communion; abliserco terile regions of t of knoies of cultivated life; and ogettered portions of to able barrier.

    e one day descried some s drifting at a distance.

    At sea, every t breaks tony of ttracts attention. It proved to be t of a s must ely ened to to prevent trace by ly drifted about for many monters of sened about it, and long sea-ed at its sides. But ruggle  tempest--tening among tell tory of their end.

    siged after t s prayers offered up at ted ?reside of en ress, to catcelligence of tation darkened into anxiety--anxiety into dread--and dread into despair! Alas! not one memento may ever return for love to c may ever be kno s, quot;and was never ;

    t of to many dismal anecdotes. ticularly to been fair, began to look ening, and gave indications of one of torms t imes break in upon ty of a summer voyage. As  round t of a lamp, in t made tly, everyone ale of ser. I icularly struck  one related by tain:

    quot;As I ; said ;in a ?ne, stout s prevail in ts rendered it impossible for us to see far aime; but at nig  distinguis at t lig t-ant co look out for ?somed to anc a great rate ter. Suddenly tc tered before ed to  a ligruck  amids of our vessel, bore c started from to be s bore it to our ears, s us out of all furt t cry! It ime before  t, surned, as nearly as o t for several ened if --we never saw or ;

    I confess tories, for a time, put an end to all my ?ne fancies. torm increased . to tremendous confusion. to deep. At times t asunder by ?asning e of ers, and aggering and plunging among t seemed miraculous t so ter;  buried beneatimes an impending surge appeared ready to overerous movement of the shock.

    ired to my cabin, till followed me.

    tling of ts; training and groaning of bulkering sea, ing prison, seeking for arting of a nail, t give rance.

    A ?ne day, ranquil sea and favoring breeze,   soon put all tions to ?ig is impossible to resist t sea.  in all y, , so lord it over the deep!

    I mig is almost a continual reverie--but it is time to get to shore.

    It ; - t can form an idea of tions  of Europe.

    tions  is teeming udious years have pondered.

    From t time, until t of arrival, it . t pros along t; tretc into tains too ts of intense interest. As red telescope. My eye d  on neat cottages, rim ss. I saaper spire of a village ceristic of England.

    tide and  to come at once to  ants of friends or relations. I could distinguis to less air.  into s; ling tfully, and   o and fro, a small space o emporary importance. ted cations interco recognize eacicularly noticed one young eresting demeanor. S neared to catcenance. Sed and sad; es tress for  of late  aken to   see  tenance so ed, so pale, so gly, t it ion did not recognize  at ted on ures: it read, at once, a  sood  agony.

    All noings of acquaintances--tings of friends--tations of men of business. I alone ary and idle. I o meet, no co receive. I stepped upon t felt t I ranger in the land.