... into the ocean. The circle was whiter and more distinct, where the Gulf Stream runs parallel to the American coast, and gradually grew fainter as it passed along the Banks of Newfoundland, to the ... mutations in the character of na-tions, there are still some features that are common to the same people atall times, and which it would therefore be reasonable to impute to the great unvarying ... much to each other's taste, that there was seldom an even-ing that I did not make him a visit, and pass an hour or two in hiscompany.I learnt from him that he was born and bred at Benares,...