BISHOP STRACHAN. 7 



daughter and returned by steamer to Toron- 

 to, my face being now fairly turned home- 

 wards. 



The soil round Hamilton is of a sandy na- 

 ture, and the town is encompassed by lofty 

 wooded hills ; during all the time of my so- 

 journ there the thermometer in the shade, 

 ranged from 85 to 90, and this height of 

 temperature, aggravated by the nature of the 

 locality, I felt both night and day extremely 

 oppressive, but yet not at all injurious to health. 

 At Toronto I now dined with Bishop Stra- 

 chan, a man of great intelligence and agreeable 

 manners, and much esteemed and respected. 

 His living is worth L. 1000 a-year, and he has 

 an excellent house just out of the town, where 

 I was received by him and Mrs Strachan and 

 their son, with that heartiness of welcome, and 

 unaffected kindness, for which in Scotland un- 

 sophisticated families are still noted. Next 

 day, the 9th, I spent with Alexander Wood, 

 with all the gratification which the reminis- 

 cence of former days, and the renewal of old 

 friendship could inspire. 



