(-) x enough for me with 11b of coffe I got in the Ship & I suppose I got 1/2 Stone of Sugar & that quantity is sufficient for a passage of this length for I used coffee & Tea every night & morning. the potatoes got very bad & full of Strings. I had as much bread bakd as done me without baking any more, I used none of the meal & when I brought it here I could get nothing at all for it. I had plenty of Bacon & Butter and both Kept very well, the water continued good all the way. We had to take it in our turn to put on the fire it was between I8 of us and it came to my turn evry 9th Korning Tour passengers was all mostly tyrone people there was 46 Legal passengers and 8 Smuggled ones, You all said that it was nonsense for me to take biscuit with me but I know myslef I would have been glad of them I got a fiew & thought them a great change by living on Inch oaten bread for so long a time I know my Jaws were tird of such living, person can do almost everything on board that the can do at home the can bake boil & roast in a great variety of ways, groats & barley is a good thing to bring to make broth & on the vessel the made flummery of oat meal & the were very good only the wanted milk. to sc/I bought 2 Large loaves with me & the kept very well for I4 days, Eggs will keep all the way packed in salt, I wrote this letter principally on board & therefore I must give things as the occur but still it makes the letter look awkwardly I noticted, We arrived on &=/ the Newfoundland Banks after 30 days Sailing, the weather was very pleasant on them. when we came on 30 fathom water we quit sailing & began to fish & we caught an abundance for passengers & All, We stopd about 3 hours, the reckon the banks 2/3 of the way and the reckon from Belfast to Philad. 3500 Miles, the water on the banks was warmer than milk it was surprising to feel the heat of it. W/C bought 12th of / Molasses we had not occasion 3th of it but if I had room (stiriabout I would have used more of it. We arived safe in this city after as e.c pleasant a passage as ever was sailed of 40 days about one OCK, in the afternoon & of course there was egreat many people standing on the Quay waiting to see if the Knew any one & among the rest John Dickey enquird off several there came on board & enquird WRRRTHfrom his neighbourhood & he was to me me up WheneJa Wright is docrabousiness W as telling me he lives in town Hall there, Saml: H. lives in New Orleans here to buy goods & take them down there to con business for himself. told them my intention. going on to N. York and Saml. said he had ca. throught it and he seen it was crowded with foreign [Erstithere & if I would take his advice & stop where I was the would try & find out some situation that would answer me. so I stopped and the are trying all the can to procure one & I see the have both a good deal of Interest in the town. John Wright is now in lodgings & he said if he was in a house of his own that I sel should not go to lodgings. I pay for my board & lodging by the Week 2.1 4 Dollars and 4d rp Article for Washing and when a person is spending all and making nothing it soons runs away with a deal of money. (continued) I. I have now been here 18 days and has done nothing as yet but I have a prospect of getting a situation in a fiew days but if all fails me When P I met and he was was tar me to glatter] torn