Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1851-05-31

with the reservation that the best water and
the best milk thar can be had az yea are to me
unpalatnble, and thas. even when1 can, and
must eat under deck, it slpenanee to do 10.
But these drawbacks are Oceans fault Or
mine; not the paltie's Many Of the passela-
gers ate .their.fonr meals regularly, after the
first day out, with abundant relish; and, one
young New YoFker-added fifth. by taking
a supper at ten each night, with a capital ap-
petite, after doing full justice TO the four
regular meals II he could only patent his
digestion and warrant it he might turn his
back on merehandiEe evermore.l sata8
! The notable incidents of our passage we're
livery few. An iceberg was seen to the north
ward one morning about sunrise by those
] who we're on deck at that hour: but it kept
az q respectful distance and we thought the
example worthy nf our imitatation. under
stand thai the yising suns rays on its surface
produced fine effect A Aisingle school Of
whales exhibited their aukes for our ediica-
/ tion--soI beard. Several vessels were seen
the first morning out while we were in the
! Gulf Stream one or two from day to day, and
Of course number as we neared the entran-
&C Of the Channel on this side; but there were
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j | think we tFavcrsed nearly a thousand miles
at one time on this great highway of nations
without seeing one. Such facts give some
idea of the 0eean's immensity but I think few
can realize save by experiment the weary
length OF the way from New York to Liver
pool, nor the quantity of blue water which
lseperates the two points. Friends who went
{ to California by Cape Horn and were sea sick
III proffer YOU my heartfelt sympathies! Il
was some consolation to me, even when mos
ill and impatient 10 reflect that the gales so ad
Il verse to uswere most propitious to the many
a emigrant-freighted packets which at this sea
I. son are conveying thousands to our coun
:ry's shores, and whose clouds of canvas oc
casionally loomed upon us ia the dstance--
: What were our light affections compared
with those Of,the multisudes crowded init
their sitting sieerage, so7devoid Of conveniaa
ces and comfortsb Speed on, O. favored
conFsers ofothe deep, bearing swiftly those
suffering exiles to the land of Hope and Free
: domI Is ag1SS e.i b s1iDz ssEzal45sh 3at S
Butt must stop and begin again. Suffice
il that though we ought to have landed here
inside of twelve days from New York k,-tht
difference in time. Liverpool using that o
.
bus fiVeehours.-yet the long prevalence o
Easterly,winds had so lowered the water O
the Mersey by driving those of the chanue
westerly into the Atlantic. that the pilot de
clined the responsibility of taking our sEiI
I over the Bartill high water which was nearf
7io'clork Ne than run up opposite the city
but there was no dock-Eoom for the Baltic
and passengers and light baggage were ferriet
ashore in a sstean -sug'e which we in New
J York should deem unworthy to convey mar
ket garbage. AT last, after infinite delay ant
vexation, caused in good part by the necessity
: Of custom house scrutiny even 5fcarpet
bags, because men nil smuggle cigars ashor,
ere, even in their pockets we we're LANDED
about9 O'Clock, and to morrow. I set my watcl
BY an Englishsun. There spromise of brigh
ter skies. / shall hasten up to London q
witness the opening of the v orld's Fair; ami
so My Native Land, Good Night !'soisa ta.at