A Memoir of Daniel Lathrop Coit of Norwich Connecticut 1754 1833
A Memoir of Daniel Lathrop Coit of Norwich Connecticut 1754 1833
William Angus Knight
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On Friday, June 4, 1784, he landed in Boston, and after calling on his friends and relatives, the Greens and Hubbards, he found himself in Nor- wich in a little more than a year and a day from his departure. To a bright, intelligent young man, old enough to know what he wanted to see and do, yet young enough to enjoy it, this year of foreign travel was full of pleasure and profit and instruction. He did not go as far or as fast in twelve months as the tour- ist now travels in thirty days ; yet ...the post-chaise and the diligence gave opportunities for seeing and DANIEL LATHROP COIT 27 knowing the country and the man- ners and customs of the people that are not afforded by automobiles and limited express trains. He was doubtless a marked man in Norwich after his return, for, says John Fiske, " even in a town as large as Philadelphia at that time, an American who had crossed the At- lantic was sure to be pointed out in the street ' as a man that has been in Europe. ' " His comments on England are not uninteresting : "The constitution of Britain seems to be like the body of an infirm man laboring under a com- plication of disorders which cannot be cured, but must by and by destroy it.
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