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a voyage to what seemed so distant. An island of red painted houses, the Arsenal I believe it is which we are opposite and an island just outside of white houses seven exactly alike.

 The Jersey shore

look very fine in the distance and soon we will leave land behind us; when we see land again I anticipate that it will be quite another sort of scene of another clime and a lot of boys very sick. It is so cool here to what it was in Washington that I almost felt uncomfortable in the change, but it seemed home like-Chicago like and that was comforting.