It was fortunate for Boyton's digestion that he was obliged to stay at that place for five hours, owing to the flood tide.
Directly after resuming the voyage, he was met by a fleet of boats, one of them being occupied by Sir Edward Thornton, the British Minister at Washington, and his beautiful daughter.

Being old acquaintances, Paul enjoyed a pleasant chat with them, and a few moments later, he landed at Newburyport.

The voyage was ended.

He had made two hundred miles of very rough going, in seven days.
Boyton rested but a short time ere he was ready to begin a run down the Connecticut, the largest and most beautiful river in New England, from as near the headwaters as he could get, to Long Island Sound.

His arrival at Stratford, New Hampshire, from which place he had decided to start, occasioned a great deal of comment in that and neighboring villages.