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"A day ashore"

Few people can apreciate the joy & excitement of being on terra firma like those, who after a long sea voyage set their foot on land for the first time. After a couple of months at sea, with a full allowance of gales and constant foul winds, great was our satisfaction in at length arriving in the River, with land on both sides wild & uncultivated at first, but gradually presenting a pleasanter view. It became partially cleared with white shining houses on its banks and the cultivated land with its patches of green offering a pleasing contrast. to the dark sombre hue of the forest. Many & speculative were the opinions as to the next word underlined: "capabilities" (in a sporting sense) of the different ridges of forest and wild country of many of our old country sportsmen -- they would exclaim, by Jove what splendid cock word, his eye wandering over miles & miles of larch forests and then would ejaculate a wish to draw them with a pack of foxhounds, whilst