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all we have met with in the 100 miles we have voyaged on it. On the Thames last year we must have passed as many hundred in the same distance.

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On my enquiring the reason of this of my friends at Frankfurt, I find that in consequence of there being 3 distinct companies & only then between that place & Rotterdam its outlet, the delay, uncertainty & expense of sending goods is so considerable as to make it necessary to send all for Northern & British & American trade to Hamburg. This costs but about 3/- per cwt for 310 miles all land carriage.

SAT. AUG. 5 This being the first of our destined resting places we delighted in spending an idle day as some change to the industry we have hitherto displayed. I occupied myself with Sir Wm Curtis’s 3 R’s reading, writing & arithmetic, which I had found little leisure for recently. Mrs Joy received a letter from home which was very acceptable, for we had now been absent a fortnight. An excellent table d’hote had we but no English people thereat except ourselves & 2 Irish ladies who sat next to Martha & whose acquaintance she made. They politely

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