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pastimes, the follies and foibles of younger days, and the 

 many thoughtless and innocent amusements, as well as agree- 

 able hours we all spent on the flowery greens of Inchcask ! 

 Why is fate so hard-hearted as to divide us so far apart, and 

 subject us to so much trouble and anxiety in this terrestial 

 world of briars and thorns 



EAKLY ADVENTURES. 



I shall now give you a brief outline of my own adventures. 

 I had not left my father's house in 1804, two days, before I 

 sincerely regretted my undertaking, but that false pride so 

 peculiar to our country people, would not allow me to turn 

 back, so I advanced, and as I advanced mourned my fate all 

 the way to America and for some years afterwards. After 

 living a year in Lower Canada, in the capacity of school- 

 master, I found my purse, notwithstanding the strictest 

 economy, to have sunk as low as two shillings and six pence 

 in all, and although my father had given me an order to draw 

 some money I never would do so. With this small pittance, 

 therefore, I set out in 1805 for the Upper Province of this 

 dissolute, extravagant and butterfly country. There I was 

 something more successful, at least earned a livelihood in a 

 genteel manner by teaching school, an occupation which I 

 was not altogether calculated for. At the end of 1809 I had 

 only saved about one hundred dollars in cash, and purchased 

 about 300 acres of land, and this property still remains in 

 Canada. In 1810 I embarked as an adventurer in a new 

 concern, called the Pacific Eur Company, for this country. 

 On the way thither we passed Cape di Verde Islands, Falk- 

 land Islands, Terra del Euego, Magellan, Cape Horn, the 

 southern promontory of America, Chili, Peru, Sandwich 



