5th Month, 24th and 25th,

were spent at Liver-
pool

, in preparation for my intended voyage to
America.

5th Month, 26th.

Being the first day of the week,
we attended the meetings at Liverpool

, and spent
the rest of the day at our Cousin A. B.'s, at Mile-
end, near Liverpool; where we had the company of
Captain R. B. of the Romulus, an agreeable, con-
sistent friend, from Hudson City, in the State of
New-York.

5th Month, 27th.

In the morning cousin T. B.
kindly conducted me to the Lyceum; a splendid
public establishment of the nature of a news-room
or coffee-house, and library. Afterwards, accom-
panied by my wife and children, we paid a visit to
the Asylum for the Blind ; an institution well worthy
the support of the wealthy, where many persons
who have lost their sight, are instructed in various
branches of business, by which they are enabled to
pass their time usefully, and agreeably to them-
selves. After visiting this institution, we walked
to the Botanic Garden. Our relation being a sub-
scriber, had the privilege of introducing us as
strangers; and we spent a pleasant hour or two,
having, in the compass of a few acres of land, an
opportunity of seeing a vast variety of plants, flowers,
shrubs, and trees, natives of every quarter of the
world, alive and flourishing as in the countries
from which they are brought. Amongst them I
noticed the banana and the sugar cane.