t of the elderly females put their heads together on the spot,
and appeared to be congratulating each other on the prospect of being
speedily relieved from their household cares.

Dr. Reasono next spoke of his departure from St. Helena, and of his
finally landing in Portugal. Here, agreeably to his account, he engaged
certain Savoyards to act as his couriers and guides during a tour he
intended to make through Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, France, etc.,
etc., etc. I listened with admiration. Never before had I so lively
a perception of the vast difference that is effected in our views of
matters and things, by the agency of an active philosophy, as was now
furnished by the narrative of the speaker. Instead of complaining of the
treatment he had received, and of the degradations to which he and his
companions had been subjected, he spoke of it all as so much prudent
submission, on his part, to the customs of the countries in which he
happened to find himself, and as the means of ascertaining a thousand
important facts, both moral and physical, which he proposed to submit
to the academy in a separate memoir another day. At present, he was
admonished by the clock to conclude, and he would therefore hasten his
narrative as much as possible.

The Doctor, with great ingenuousness, confessed that he could gladly
have passed a year or two longer in those distant and highly interesting
portions of the earth; but he could not forget that he had a duty to
perform to the friends of two noble families. The Journey of Trial
had been completed under the most favorable auspices, and the ladies
naturally became anxious to return home. They had accordingly passed
into Great Britain, a country remarkable for maritime enterprise, where
he immediately commenced the necessary preparations for their sailing. A
ship had been procured under the promise of allowing it to be freighted,
free of custom-house charges, with the products of Leaphigh. A thousand
applications had been made to him for permission to be of his party,
the natives naturally enough wishing to see a civilized country; but
prudence had admonished him to accept of those only who were the most
likely to make themselves useful. The king of Great Britain, no mean
prince in human estimation, had committed his only son and heir-apparent
to his care, with a view to his improvement by travelling; and the
lord high admiral himself had asked permission to take command of an
expedition t