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sleeping soundly in bed at the hotel there. It is
possible that my sensations of the bad ventilation
of the sleeping cabin were exaggerated by the fact
that I left England in a very questionable state
of health; a long account of anxiety and overwork
was debited against me, the inevitable settlement
was fast approaching, and was only just met, and
sanitary bankruptcy averted by this excursion,
during the whole of which the equilibrium of my
nervous system was much disturbed; this may
have reached its climax when I awoke every
morning with a morbid dread of actual suffocation,
which I knew to be unfounded, and yet could not
control.
The ladies had a fairly ventilated cabin level
with the saloon, but it was much crowded. This
is an inconvenience necessarily incident to so large
a party of ladies. The addition of six to the usually
full numbers that occupy the ladies’ cabins at this
season, is a serious overflow, and cannot fail to
produce discomfort.
There are three or four deck cabins on this
vessel, but they were appropriated by the married
people, or those that had come from Hamburgh.
Shipbuilders have yet to invent a packet boat
suitable for this kind of navigation. It should be
built with temporary movable saloon and cabins,
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