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situation, without looking back on her former 

 very different life. In October they settled at 

 the town of Cobourg, near Lake Ontario, as a 

 temporary residence while a house was building 

 for them on the land they had obtained. She 

 describes her house thus : 



" Coboitrg, Oct 30. 



" There are three rooms on the ground floor, 

 and four above, but they are so small they are 

 like little closets ; we contrive, however, to 

 squeeze into them, and though we shall be here 

 two months, we can easily reconcile ourselves 

 to these little inconveniences. 



"There is a nice grassy place in front of the 

 house, it is paled in, and the children can play in 

 it with safety : that is one great comfort. We 

 found some boards in the barn, and Mr. * * *, 

 whose old tastes as an amateur mechanic are 

 now very useful, has made temporary shelves and 

 tables of them. We have at present neither 

 table, chair, nor bedstead, the carriage of these 

 articles was too expensive for us ; but we have 

 screws and all things ready, to make them when 

 we are settled in our loghouse, for which I long 

 as ardently as if it was a palace. 



" Our bed-rooms have no doors, but we hang 

 up blankets, which answer the purpose. Fortu- 

 nately we have plenty of these, and the air is so 

 dry that we do not suffer from the cold, though 

 the nights are frosty, and not a fire-place in the 



