Mr. Greville---Mr. Watt---Sir Joseph Banks and his con- JOURNAL OF TRAVELS, &c. No. I.-PASSAGE TO ENGLAND. Satma 1805....Tuesday, April 6th, on board the Ontario, at sea. To Gold S. Silliman, of Newport, Rhode Island. MY DEAR BROTHER, On the 4th, at one in the afternoon, we sailed from New York, with a wind so strong and fair, that the spires of the city lessened every moment as we passed down the bay, and we had hardly time to admire the beauty of the retiring landscape. In the morning no land was visible, and we found that we had made a ra pid transition from smooth water and fine weather, to tempestuous seas and angry skies. To me who had never been at sea before, it was but an unpromising beginning; distressing sea sickness immediately followed, and this day has been, throughout, dark, stormy, and dismal. Towards evening, however, I became better, and was able to enjoy a scene of much gran. deur and beauty, produced by the setting sun, which suddenly shone out from the clouds with great splendour. The circle of the horizon was unbroken by any inequality, except that of the waves, whose snowwhite tops were rendered doubly resplendent, by the reflection of the sun beams, while a fair wind and the |