A Tour Up the Straits, from Gibraltar to Constantinople / With the Leading Events in the Present War Between the Austrians, Russians, and the Turks, to the Commencement of the Year 1789

by Captain David Sutherland

"Until I heard of your preparations

for crossing the Atlantic, I attributed

your silence to your confidence in my

esteem, and in my unalterable attachment;

and when I reflected how long

your indispensable concerns would engage

you, I had almost persuaded

myself to wish that you would not

prolong your absence, even by the

time in which you would be writing