"I am just come from an expedition through the Bosphorus to the Black Sea and the Cyanean Symplegades, up which last I scrambled with as great risk as ever the Argonauts escaped in their hoy. "
"I seize the opportunity of Mr. Hobhouse’s return to England to write a few lines, in the hope that they will find you well and as happy as philosophers are, and men ought to be. "