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societies to [enable delegates] to attend a meeting of 

 the &quot;American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science,&quot; which takes place at Montreal on the I2th 

 August [1857]. Failing Sir Roderick, the Geological 

 Society have deputed me to represent them, so I go 

 in an honourable position. Taking Mrs. Ramsay 

 with him, he sailed on the 2Qth July. 



This was by far the most enjoyable and instructive 

 of all his foreign expeditions. His friends, Sir William 

 Logan and Professor James Hall of Albany, spared 

 no pains to ensure his seeing everything that he 

 wished to see, or which they thought it important from 

 a geological point of view that he should visit. His 

 time was thus economised to the utmost. He was 

 taken from point to point, so that in the course of 

 exactly two months he had travelled over a large 

 extent of country, and had been conveyed over those 

 tracts which were specially of service to him in 

 reference to the problems in which he took interest. 



From Montreal Logan carried the two travellers to 

 Ottawa and up the St. Lawrence by the Thousand Isles 

 and Lake Ontario to Niagara, thence to Lake Huron. 

 At Sarnia, Hall met them, and brought them into New 

 York State by Genisee to his hospitable home at 

 Albany, from which centre they made excursions to 

 Schoharie, the Helderberg, and Catskill Mountains. 

 Descending the Hudson to New York, they found 

 there that almost all the persons to whom they had 

 introductions were absent on holiday. They therefore 

 passed on to Newhaven, and paid a short visit to 

 Professors Dana, Silliman, and Brush, thence to 

 Boston, where they were delighted to meet Agassiz, 

 and so back to Montreal and Quebec for the voyage 

 home. 



