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would be a more definite description. Its cream- 

 coloured walls, red roofs and turrets might have looked 

 over a smiling Surrey landscape, and it is sad to think 

 that lovely house is no more, for the following year it 

 was burnt down. Another house has been built, but 

 the old " Nokomis " is gone. The time spent there 

 was just the kind of holiday Ramsay loved to take in 

 Scotland, in a house by the sea (in this case it was on 

 the river), boating and bathing, with room enough for 

 a friend or two to share the pleasure. Only the scale 

 differed : in Scotland a small motor launch and a 

 rowing boat met his wants, but at " Nokomis " there 

 were two, if not three yachts of different sizes, several 

 launches and quite a fleet of smaller boats. The 

 pleasure, however, was the same. The island was a 

 large one, and had actually a riding track about a mile 

 long. 



The bathing was most luxurious. The bathers came 

 from their rooms, crossed half-a-dozen yards of lawn 

 and stepped into the St. Lawrence, which, being wide 

 just there, had not a very strong current. There were 

 excursions to visit friends on other islands, one to 

 Kingston to see an old assistant of Ramsay's, a regatta, 

 mornings of tennis and afternoons of fishing, evenings 

 of games and talk, so the time went past all too quickly. 



As some arrangements for the Congress were yet to 

 be made, the whole party decamped on the 30th to 

 New York, where they took up their abode at the 

 Belmont Hotel. Dr. Nichols' own home was in Brooklyn, 



