Emotions on leaving Home - The Captain Cabin Passengers-The Sea-Sea Life — Fishermen - A Reflection.
It was a bright morning in mid-summer- a gentle breeze was abroad, and light, feathery clouds swept along the sky, fleckering the golden sun-light on the pavement with patches of shadow, as we left our home to embark in one of the new line of Packet ships running between the good city of Boston and Liverpool.
There are peculiar emotions experienced by one about to leave the home of his childhood,— especially a city distinguished above others for its intelligence, for its many and noble intellects, its schools, churches, charities, its many advantages, and embark for a foreign land. The home that one is about to leave, is felt to be dearer than ever. It vividly presents itself in all its varied attractions, revealing more sensibly the number and strength of the ties by which it binds him. And though the mind may cheer itself with
