Hamoaze, the ferry, and Devonport at 1/2 past 8.

Much as I longed to get home, I went forthwith into a hot bath at 102, to boil out all chills, and thence went spick and span to my happy rest, having within 48 hours seen the best part of Cornwall and its wonders, and rode or walked 250 miles.

And so, brother David, commend me for a traveller.

HERE ends my Cornish expedition.

Does it recall to thee, O sire, thine own of old time, undertaken (if I remember rightly) with Dr.Kidd ?--Mails then did not travel like the Quicksilver, averaging 12 miles an hour, and few people go 40 miles before breakfast.