Secondly, because sea-faring people, when they retire from a marine life, usually settle in some town or village upon the coast.
Of this tour I shall not give the reader any very particular account.

I shall mention only those things which are most worthy of his notice in it.

At Poole, in Dorsetshire, I laid the foundation of a committee, to act in harmony with that of London for the promotion of the cause.

Moses Neave, of the respectable society of the Quakers, was the chairman; Thomas Bell, the secretary; and Ellis B.Metford and the Reverend Mr.
Davis and others the committee.

This was the third committee which had been instituted in the country for this purpose.