BISHOP STRACHAN. 73 



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. 



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