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their own family ; and when the cholera raged there, many deserted their 

 own parents and brethren. This disease was so destructive that churchyards 

 were covered with dead bodies, for which neither coffins nor graves could be 

 provided. A friend of his was tossed with other carcasses into the general 

 heap, and quicklime was actually strewn over the whole, the poor man being 

 perfectly conscious all the while, but unable to stir : at last he contrived to 

 crawl out, and is now alive and well. Many persons were buried in this 

 horrid and premature way, for the Americans never keep any body for more 

 than a day— a man being good for nothing when he is dead. He told a 

 singular story of three Irishmen, who were seized with cholera when per- 

 fectly intoxicated, and were carried in a cart to the sheds erected outside the 

 town tor the reception of the sick. The surgeon, who was exhausted with 

 his day's work, said he should not attend to men who had no respect for their 

 own lives , and so having administered medicines to the other patients, he 

 left the Irishmen to their fate. When he returned in the morning, all were 

 dead except the neglected Paddies, who, on seeing the doctor, immediately 

 exclaimed, ' AVhen will your honour be ordering us a drop of drink ?' One 

 of the victims of this pestilence was Brandt, the chief of the Huron tribe : 

 he was a fine young man, much beloved by his people, a captain in the Eng- 

 lish service, and a descendant of that General Johnson who had such great 

 influence with the Indians. He died as much from drinking as from cholera; 

 and it seems that this fatal habit is destroying numbers of the red people — 

 My new acquaintance staled, that, on arriving at Glasgow, he wished to see 

 three of his friends, who were living there when he left Scotland ; but on 

 enquiring he found that they were all under the sod." — p. 15. 



Mr. Lesingham Smith is a great stickler for the superiority of the 

 service of the church of England. He does not, however, once hint 

 that that service admits of very considerable improvement. Nor, in- 

 deed, is it perhaps to be expected at present that a minister of our 

 church should be desirous of effecting the alterations and abridgments 

 to which we allude. After describing the service of the Presbyterian 

 church of Scotland, he says : — 



" Such is the service of the Presbyterian kirk of Scotland. T went to hear 

 it with a predetermination that I would not allow myself to judge hastily or 

 harshly ; yet my firm conviction is, that in no single respect whatever can it 

 bear a comparison with the service of the church of England." — p. 19. 



The following quotation is amusing. Our tourist is paying off one 

 of his guides, and observes — 



" • Here's sixpence a-piece for yourself, and wife, and seven bairns, and 

 sixpence over for luck.' 



« If I had given him a thousand pounds he could not have been more sur- 

 prised or more grateful. He looked at the two half-crowns for some time 

 without uttering a word, and then burst out : 



" ' Ye're a gentleman ; a rale gentleman ! Give us your hand ! I'll be 

 up to carry your luggage the morning for nothing. Thank ye — thank ye 

 kindly.' 



" And then, as I turned away towards the inn, he slapped me on the shoul- 

 der, and once more exclaimed ' ye're a gentleman !' with a marked emphasis 

 on the word, as if it embodied the highest compliment which one man could 

 pay to another. And the Gael was so far right ; but whether giving him a 

 crown proved me to be a gentleman is another matter: I know those who 

 will rather think it proveame to be a fool."— p. 169. 



