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    No . I . To Mr . Say . Stockholm , May y * l % rh , Whit Monday . Rever d . S . I hope ong before thfoydtf have had the satisfaction to hear by my sister , that I arriv'd safe at Stockholm on the 28 th o £ April , after a tedious ^ passage of a month , lacking one day ; tho'the Cap * , reckoned it a fine one ; but I am sure I founa it bad enough in every respect . I drittbt not but sister gave you a particular account , as I desired her , of my voyage , for which reason , I shall not repeat it . I flatter myself that you and dear Mrs .

    Say were joy'd to hear I was safe landed ; it is needless to tell you how much I was so ; and indeed my pleasure and glee wa- so great the first step I set on Terra-> firma that it was not to be expressed , but only felt . My poor carcase had been

    txsed so much to tumbling and tossing about in the ship , that I could not stand , nor walk steady for a week after . But thanks be to the Almighty that I am got safe here : and I am thankful to my captain , whose skill , and prudence , and wise management was the second means of

    my safety . I little thought , when I was at the launching of the ship , at Ipswich , about a years since , th , at I should venture my all in her . 'Tis a fine large ship , which afforded me some comfort ; for I thought my danger was not so great

    as in a smaller . We -were seven days in that dangerous Cattegat ( the wind being contrary , ) which a fair wind wou'd have carried us thro' in one day ; but we had no storms , ¦ which might have proved fatal for want of sea-room ; for there is an

    innumerable company of rocks that are invisible , which makes the place more formidable to the sailors ; for many a noble ship has been lost there , and many thousands of lives . The captain shew'd me there , and in divers other places , as we sailed , where he saw many ships lost before his eyes , and he escaped . The

    wonders I saw in the great waters fill'dme with vast admiration and meditation , and many pleasing ; ( and I hope profitable ) soliloquies I had : this entertainment lasted the best part of the way ; but at times my thoughts were so much ruffled and

    ( li . ^ compos'd as even to distract me with my present fears and sufferings . I was fearful that I shou'd never get to the " port 1 was designing ; ( and if I shou'd , ¦ what a strange land it was to be settled in !) and anxious as to the success I might have in it , and groaning inwardly that I

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    was oblig'd to forsake every thing that is dear to me : but every thing and creature seem'd to agree that go I must ; and I hoped , and seemed firmly persuaded , that it wou'd be for my good and advantage in the main : there is no striving against the stream ; I believe the Almighty has ordered my station here , and on that consideration desire , and will endeavour , to make myself as easy in

    rriy exile as I can . I ' ve left a land of . plenty , and come to seek my bread where the natives hardly find supplies for themselves ; but perhaps for my own particular part , I may find more than I have done for some time , and eat it with

    less bitterness of spirit . The success of all things belongs to God , and I trust and hope I shall have more ease and satisfaction 0 % mind in some things tftan I have had of late . As I hope to lave content in my business here , I shall make it my study to give it ; for without we are mutually pleased , -we can never go smoothly-on in our way .

    I have been ever since I came on shore , at an English merchant ' s house , Mr . Campbell being about removing to a new one as soon as it ' s aired , and his goods set up . His lady has kept her bed almost ever since I ' ve been here , she

    having lately lain in , and buried her child , and had a fever since ; but she is pretty well recover'd now- I've been once to wait on her ; the scene was odd between us , she talking no English , and I no Swedish or French : we both

    directed our discourse to each other , but the lady I am with , v / ho is a very pretty , well bred , English young lady , interpreted for us both . They have 4 daughters > one but 5 years old , so I suppose she is not to be immediately under my care ; the eldest is about 13 , as tall as myself ; they are all fine , beautiful children , and I

    hear very apt to learn , which will be a pleasure to themselves , and a great ease to me , for ' tis natural to desire to reap as well as sow . I am very apprehensive of a great : difficulty in toy way , for the eldest only understands and speaks a little English ; I am to teach them English as Well as other things , and how I shall make them understand me , when 1 can t direct them in the languages they do un * derstand , is a weight on my mind atpresent , but perhaps I may get over it better than I think . Tor . As to Mr . Camp beJI , he even at present charms me , he appears to have so many god-like qualifications ; there is so much goodness and

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    304 The Say Tapers . —Original Letter of Mrs . M . ShepparcTs .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1809, page 304, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1737/page/2/