I had selected the southern counties from Kent to Cornwall for it.
I had done this, because these included the great stations of the ships of war in ordinary; and as these were all under the superintendence of Sir Charles Middleton, as comptroller of the navy, I could get an introduction to those on board them.

Secondly, because sea-faring people, when they retire from a marine life, usually settle in some town or village upon the coast.
Of this tour I shall not give the reader any very particular account.

I shall mention only those things which are most worthy of his notice in it.
At Poole in Dorsetshire I laid the foundation of a committee, to act in harmony with that of London for the promotion of the cause.

Moses Neave, of the respectable society of the Quakers, was the chairman; Thomas Bell, the secretary, and Ellis.

B.Metford and the reverend Mr.Davis and others the committee.