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past; but, before we got many miles, it sometimes happened that the tables were turned; and the winds would favour us to get before those who had so recently derided us. To persons disposed to moralize, there was somewhat instructive in these changes of scene; as we may not unfrequently observe similar occurrences in our passage through life. 10th, Month, 25th. I arrived at Hudson early in the afternoon, and paid for my passage, of about 150 miles, one dollar and a half; and was charged three quarters of a dollar per day for board and liquor during the voyage. As we were about leaving the sloop, a boy came on board, and abruptly told the young woman, our fellow-passenger, that her sister, whom she was come to see, had just breathed her last. That proved more than the poor girl could bear; and she was not in a situation to leave the vessel while I staid. It was a great pity that more caution was not observed in conveying such afflictive intel- ligence. In stepping ashore at Hudson, one of the first persons I met with was George Bunker, the first mate of the ship in which I came over to America, whose family reside here. He kindly sent his son as my guide to T. C.'s, whence I went that evening to H. M.'s, and lodged at his house on the banks of Claverick Creek.