34 MR GREIG. 



ligence, and which to me was not a little in* 

 teresting, he retains to this day his native ac- 

 cent in all its purity, which, I confess, sound- 

 ed sweetly to my ear in this land of strangers. 



Unfortunately for me, Mr Greig who has 

 this year been elected a member to Congress 

 for his own district, had fixed to-morrow for 

 his departure for Washington, so that his time 

 was greatly occupied and I was deprived of an 

 opportunity of acquiring much information 

 which I expected to receive from him. Still 

 I had some interesting conversation with him 

 regarding his locality, in the course of which 

 I learnt that forty years ago the whole of the 

 surrounding country for hundreds of miles, 

 was one impenetrable forest, and that then not 

 a stone existed of the town of Canandaigua 

 now containing several thousand wealthy in- 

 habitants. 



Several of Mr Greig's neighbours were as- 

 sembled at his house, whom I had the pleasure 

 of meeting, and among them a Mr Renton 

 an Ayrshire man who had settled near this 

 seven years ago. Upon the whole I passed a 



