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CONT AUG 3

of good and concise writing does this days voyage occupy; judge therefore that we had much to see. Much very much also had we to hear, for immediately that our gaily trimmed vessel with its many flying colors, came in sight of a station, bang went their batteries, & six times was the salute repeated from ours, till the very river spirits must have thought the end of all things to be approaching. And opposite Neuwied a strain of music floated, bearing to our ears the national anthem of our own England, sung to us by more than a 100 voices. At first we attributed the honor to the presence of so many Englishmen board, but we deceived ourselves for the Prussians use the same air as we do & claim it as their own because Hayden the composer of it was a Prussian. But as he wrote it in England, to English

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