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Excerpt from In the Confederation: 1783-1784
T was towards the end of November when with B. The purpose of visiting the southern colonies, I left Philadelphia for the second time. I had in tended making the journey thence by sea, in one of the regular packet - boats to Charleston; and it was not so much the commonly disagreeable and often tedious voyage at this late season of the year, as the advice of several estimable men and their representations of the manifold advantages, the great pleasure and instruction to be had from a land-journey that determined me in this course. I concluded therefore to take the so - called 'back road from Philadelphia, by Lancaster and thence along the mountains through Virginia to North Carolina, on which route I could hope to find much that was remarkable. But the roads of those parts getting worse with the approach of winter, I was obliged to leave them and travel along the coast. And unfortu nately, at this dead season, I did not find the hoped-for compensation for the long way which, in the spring or the summer, must have afforded at every step useful and pleasant entertainment.
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