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Excerpt from The Amateur Emigrant: From the Clyde to Sandy Hook
Our friendshifi was not only founded before we were born by a community of blood, but is in itself near as old as my life. It began with our early ages, and, like a history, has been continued to the fresent time. Although we may not be old in the world, we are old to each other, having so long been intimates. We are now widely separated, a great sea and conti nent intervening but memory, like care, mounts into iron ships and rides fiost behind the horseman. Neither time nor space nor enmity can conquer old afiection; and as I dedicate these sketches, it is not to you only, but to all in the old country, that 1.
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