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ing, nor the management of blacks (slaves). I begin 

 to feel in rather an unpleasant situation ; disappointed 

 in all my endeavours, and my finances getting low ; but I 

 am schooled to disappointments and misfortunes, they seem 

 my unalienable property. I now turned my attention 

 towards home, from whence I expected a letter, and some 

 little money. No one that has not been placed in similar 

 circumstances can tell my feelings at this time ; no friend 

 near to console or assist me, and I had neglected to bring 

 letters of recommendation, which, when I left England,! sup 

 posed would be useless ; the lowest station seemed to await 

 me, but I summoned courage to wait with patience, and 

 rely on Providence. 



General M Donald is upwards of eighty years of age, 

 yet is very active, and has been robust ; he is an in 

 stance, by no means uncommon here, of the longevity of 

 Europeans. It would seem, the climate is congenial to the 

 robust and over-luxuriant constitutions bred in Britain. 

 The dryness of the air, perhaps, desicates the super 

 abundant moisture generated by the dampness of an English 

 climate. A young man, a ship carpenter from the Canada 

 frontiers, has come to board where I am, he was compelled 

 to leave that neighbourhood, having been detected in smug 

 gling merchandise into that province in a fictitious or forged 

 name : he gives a flattering account of the above country, 

 near Detroit, and says the climate is fine and healthy. 



Su?idau, March 13. Heard a woman preach, and the 

 meeting was crowded to excess. She had a strong, and not 

 unpleasant voice, except when strained above its natural 

 key ; she prayed fervently and rather eloquently, but her 

 discourse not sufficiently explanatory. This was the first 

 woman 1 have heard preach ; and it appears to me, that a 

 woman assuming the sacred and dignified office of a preacher, 

 must sacrifice some of that modesty and delicacy of feeling, 

 indispensable to the character of an amiable and virtuous 

 female. 



March 17. St. Patrick s Day. -The sons of Hibernia, 

 after going in procession, and attending the Roman Catholic 

 church, exhibit a little of the overflowings of their natural 

 warm-heartedness, excited by a drop of the &quot; cratur.&quot; 

 Weather getting as hot as May in England, with occasional 

 thunder showers, and the thermometer 65 this morning- 

 at sunrise. I have heard no birds singing in the field* , 



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