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by fifty-three feet, aud -will seat fifteen hundred per- 

 sons. I have received the greatest kindness from 

 Father Taylor and his hospitable family. He has 

 great oratorical powers. He is truly a great original. 

 He uses very quaint sayings in the pulpit. Some of 

 his imagery and illustrations are beautiful. Very fre- 

 quently the same sermon makes the congregation 

 laugh and weep. Father Taj'lor is a man of high 

 respectability and great influence in Boston. He was 

 one of the Delegates selected to go in the Jamestown 

 with provisions to the Irish in 1847. A few doors 

 from Father Taylor's residence, I found my country- 

 man. Dr. Molloy, who had been our family physician 

 at Carbonear, from my boyhood up to the time of his 

 leaving for Canada, fourteen years ago. Dr. Molloy 

 still practises as a physician. ' His eldest son will re- 

 ceive his diploma to practice some time during the 

 year. Dr. Molloy frequently accompanied me in my 

 wanderings through the great thor,ough fares of Boston. 

 I next visited the Rev. Abel Stevens, A. M., who 

 is the author of two or three works, and the editor of 

 ^* Zion's Herald," the organ of the Methodist Epis- 

 copal Church for the New England States. He is a 

 man of great talent. The most eloquent speech I 

 ever heard was from Mr. Stevens, delivered at the 



