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" situations. I believe, however, that I shall take 



" Philadelphia in my course, and if anything can be 



" done there, I shall not proceed further." 



This scheme soon ripened into accomplishment, and on 

 March 22, 1838, having realized the farm and stock as 

 best he could, he left Canada for the United States, his 

 friend Jaques driving him in his waggon as far as Bur- 

 lington, on Lake Champlain. 



This is the moment, perhaps, briefly to recapitulate the 

 results of the three years which had elapsed since he left 

 Newfoundland. As a monetary speculation, he had done 

 deplorably. He was twenty-eight years of age, and he was 

 not possessed, when all his property was told, of so many 

 pounds. By his change from Carbonear he had greatly 

 increased his toil ; he had lived much more meanly and on 

 a coarser fare, had been more poorly clad, and had suffered 

 in general health. To set against all these losses there 

 were two or three considerations. The mercantile house 

 which he had left in Newfoundland had, during these three 

 years, rapidly fallen into grave difficulties, and had broken 

 up, the clerks being dispersed to seek fresh employment. 

 The state of society in the colony had by this time, through 

 the ever-increasing turbulence and lawlessness of the Irish 

 population, become almost unbearable for Protestants. 

 But the great, the only, counterbalance to the wretched 

 disappointments and privations of these years in Canada 

 was the constant advance in scientific knowledge and range 

 of mental vision, which was checked, if at all, only during 

 the physical trouble of the last six months. 



From the distressing correspondence of this period, with 

 its patient record of poverty, fatigue, and deferred hope, 

 I turn gladly to the professional journals, with their 

 unflagging note of triumph, and I permit myself one more 

 extract. It is not thrilling, perhaps, but I take it as an 



