So far from the place of landing, in any coun|try, being unimportant, it should be looked upon as the key to every other, by whose aid alone we can open the cabinet of its curiosi|ties, and become acquainted with its secrets. The direct reverse of such conduct would be knowledge and truth: the effects would alter with the causes. In all this, there happens nothing but what must be expected from so much haste, namely, folly and ignorance. With boatmen, porters, and waggoners, currente calamo. I DO not think we can enter on the SECOND SHFAF of our GLEANINGS better, than attending to what a traveller is most embar|rassed about on his first landing-the best and cheapest mode of proceeding on his journey: since it is but too certain, that all the informa|tion which he can get from books, on this sub|ject, is very insufficient.-The tour-makers, indeed, have hurried on, as deeming the first port too trifling to merit their notice: and, either disgusted with, what they have called, impositions, fatigued with their voyage, or wishing to 'rush into the midst of things' all at once, they have made a sort of running sight, from whom they conceive to be enemies of their purses, and sit down 'in the sick sit,' to give splenetic accounts of their skirmishes

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