To Break His Outstanding
Engagements - To Write Letters To His Amazed Family, Stating That
They Were Not To Expect Him
At dinner on Saturday fortnight, as he
would be at Jerusalem on that day - to purchase eighteen shirts and
lay
In a sea stock of Russia ducks, - was the work of four-and-
twenty hours; and on the 22nd of August, the "Lady Mary Wood" was
sailing from Southampton with the "subject of the present memoir,"
quite astonished to find himself one of the passengers on board.
These important statements are made partly to convince some
incredulous friends - who insist still that the writer never went
abroad at all, and wrote the following pages, out of pure fancy, in
retirement at Putney; but mainly, to give him an opportunity of
thanking the Directors of the Company in question for a delightful
excursion.
It was one so easy, so charming, and I think profitable - it leaves
such a store of pleasant recollections for after days - and creates
so many new sources of interest (a newspaper letter from Beyrout,
or Malta, or Algiers, has twice the interest now that it had
formerly), - that I can't but recommend all persons who have time
and means to make a similar journey - vacation idlers to extend
their travels and pursue it: above all, young well-educated men
entering life, to take this course, we will say, after that at
college; and, having their book-learning fresh in their minds, see
the living people and their cities, and the actual aspect of
Nature, along the famous shores of the Mediterranean.
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