. . . through London, to Liverpool, where we embarked, and returned to Boston, having been absent 158 days, and travelled 10,647 miles: 6,000 of which were upon the ocean, 2,444 in Great Britain, and 1,963 on the Continent. This gave us an average for each day of travel, 67 miles. Yet we did not hurry; and it is an interesting fact, that such are now the facilities of travel by steam-boats and railroads, that it is not necessary to allow much, if any time for locomotion, so that we need only to calculate how much time we want at our stopping places.
. . . I cannot close without adverting to the kind Providence that carried me and my companion safely through all our wanderings, and made them instrumental of a gradual invigoration of health that continued for many years.