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" Young Men's Missionary Meeting," at the Brom- 

 ficld street Church. His style and language was 

 much like Richard Watson's. I have on all occasions 

 received oreat kindness from Mr. Stevens. I was in- 

 troduced by Mr. Stevens to Bishop Janes, who was 

 then on a visit to Boston ; also to the Bev. Mr. Crau- 

 dall, Presiding Elder of the Boston district. I was 

 also introduced by Mr. Stevens to all the preachers, 

 who were then holding a weekly conference at the 

 Bromfield street Church. During my first interview 

 with Mr. Stevens, he asked me what they thought of 

 annexation in Newfoundland. I told him they thought 

 nothing about it ; that in this respect it was quite dif- 

 ferent from Canada, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia; 

 that many parts of those provinces were settled by 

 Loyalists at the time of the American Revolution; 

 that these countries were on the continent and joining 

 the United States, with which they had constant inter- 

 course by land as well as by sea ; consequently a 

 great deal of the American habits, customs and man- 

 ners are diffused through the continental British prov- 

 inces ; but that Newfoundland was isolated and 

 separated from the continent by the Gulf of St. Law- 

 rence, and had nothing of the American character 

 diffused amongst her people, nor a particle of sym- 

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