Note 22 — Chapter XVI
John D. (John Davidson) Godman translation
The day of our arrival at Staten Island, whilst the general was receiving the congratulations of the people, from the balcony of the vice president’s house, a rainbow, one of whose limbs enveloped and tinged fort Lafayette with a thousand colours, appeared; the multitude, struck with the beauty and opportuneness of this circumstance, exclaimed, “that heaven was in unison with America in celebrating the happy arrival of the friend of the country.”