THE VOYAGE.
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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