CHAPTER V.
MY FIRST COMING TO VIRGINIA.
There are few moments in life to compare with a traveller's first sight of a new land which is destined to be for short or long his home.

When, after a fair and speedy voyage, we passed Point Comfort, and had rid ourselves of the revenue men, and the tides bore us up the estuary of a noble river, I stood on deck and drank in the heady foreign scents with a boyish ecstasy.

Presently we had opened the capital city, which seemed to me no more than a village set amid gardens, and Mr.Lambie had come aboard and greeted me.

He conveyed me to the best ordinary in the town which stood over against the Court-house.

Late in the afternoon, just before the dark fell, I walked out to drink my fill of the place.
You are to remember that I was a country lad who had never set foot forth of Scotland.