I trust you will not think it extravagant in me for doing as I have done, for I assure you I shall endeavor to be as economical as possible.
"I also mentioned in my letter that I could scarcely expect to steer free from imposition since none of my predecessors have been able to do it.
Since writing that letter I have found (in spite of all my care to the contrary) my observation true.

In going from the Liverpool Arms to Mr.
Woolsey's, which is over a mile, I was under the necessity of getting into a hackney-coach.

Upon asking what was to pay he told me a shilling.
I offered him half a guinea to change, which I knew to be good, having taken it at the hank in New York.
"He tossed it into the air and caught it in his mouth very dexterously, and, handing it to me back again, told me it was a bad one.

I looked at it and told him I was sure it was good, but, appealing to a gentleman who was passing, I found it was bad.

Of course I was obliged to give him other money.