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green, and all sorts of colours. Morse met us at the 

 station on arrival at 4.30, and took us off to the hotel, 

 where he had most comfortable rooms for us ; he is an 

 immense favourite with every one here. We dressed, 

 and had a warm bath, and then had dinner at this club. 

 So far nothing could exceed the kindness and willing- 

 ness of every one, high and low. They are independent, 

 but see in a moment if you are of a friendly nature, and 

 meet you then more than half-way. It is all people's 

 fault, I think, if they meet with much incivility. To- 

 morrow we dine with Morse's eldest brother a party 

 of nine men and I shall meet Agassiz the naturalist, 

 we met at Flower's years ago. It will be like old 

 times going over the Museum with him. This after- 

 noon we went and saw a game at base-ball, the great 

 American game, and were very interested. It is a 

 grand game. It is played in a large oval field, with an 

 immense grand stand like Epsom ; so thousands of 

 people can watch, and they do, for they take * huge ' 

 interest in it. We leave by the night train, Sunday, 

 and arrive at Montreal on Monday. From there I 

 shall be able to give you a sketch of our plans very 

 nearly as they will be. We have quite given up Alaska." 



" MONTREAL, 

 Tuesday, i^th May. 



We have all arranged, and get what they call a state 

 room to ourselves, and start for Calgary this evening 8.40, 

 and arrive at Calgary 2.30 A.M. on Sunday. We shall 

 leave there for Vancouver the roth at 2.30 A.M., arrive 

 there the 1 2th at 2.30 P.M., and stay there till same hour 

 next day, when we go to Victoria. There are some 

 magnificent trees there which I want to see. We then 

 go straight to San Francisco via Portland, where we 

 stop for two days, arriving at San Francisco about the 



