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to Lindsay, at which place I enrolled the names 

 of seventy-eight members. 



From Lindsay I went to Fenelon Falls, quite 

 a newly-erected town, yet I found many there to 

 whom my visit was a pleasure, as I soon obtained 

 a class of some sixty members. 



Passing on westward, I continued to meet with 

 success, forming classes in some few small vil- 

 lages until, on the 9th of September, I entered 

 the beautiful town of Barrie. There I found 

 warm friends, and many lovers of the horse, who 

 met me cordially, and gave me a class of one 

 hundred and thirty-five members. 



I next shaped my course northward, to the old 

 town of Penetanguishine, on the eastern shore of 

 Georgian Bay. The larger portion of the inhab- 

 itants are French Canadians, many of whom are 

 unable to speak our language. I was informed 

 by some of the old inhabitants that the town 

 was first settled a century ago; but, notwith- 

 standing this, their progress has been slow, as at 

 present the population is but about one thou- 

 sand. i\Iy class in this place numbered about 



