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 i'roiu being swept off' my feet in the rapid, the water was 

 soon breast high. What could be the matter ? Surely where 

 loaded carts could go so shortly ago we might easily pass ; 

 and there had been no late rains to swell the river. Search- 

 ing back to the top of the bank we could find no diverging 

 track to another part of the river, and yet it was clearly a 

 case of swim to cross it here. Tired with the effort, the horses 

 were allowed to graze, and tea was made, after which the 

 essay was made to cross the river on foot at a point further 

 up, whei'e broken water seemed to show shallowness, and it was 

 while essaying this that I found the secret of the ford. The 

 carts had indeed entered straight into the water at the foot of 

 the sloping bank w'e had descended, but, once in, they had 

 turned up-stream to make the crossing in a horse shoe 

 fashion which brought them out directly on the opposite 

 side, where again a sloping bank formed the best path for 

 ascent and descent. 



Many minor difficulties at other places were the rewards 

 of inexperience, and, ])leasant as the trip had been, it was a 

 relief when it was over, the ponies placed in careful hands 

 for the winter, the cart and harness stowed away, and St 

 Paul was leached, ea.rly in Novembei-, long after Dr. Anderson. 

 Bislio]) of Kupert's Land, had reached the City by the last 

 Red River boat and stage, and had met while there Governor, 

 then Senator, Seward, an interesting account of which meet- 

 ing was afterwards given by Honorable J. W. Taylor to the 

 St. Paul Press, as follows : — 



" Allow me to present to the readers of the Press a relic 

 of Seward's visit to St. Paul in Sept., 1860, which I have 

 fyled with the archives of the Historical Society. It is an 

 address of David Anderson, Bishop of the Church of England, 

 Rupert's I^and, to Wm. H. Seward, then Senator, and now 

 Secretary of State. The meeting of the two men had been 

 arranged by mutual friends— it occured at 12 o'clock m., of 

 September 18, 1860, in the room of the Minnesota Historical 

 Society. The Bishop adopted the English custom on such 

 occasions, and read his remarks from a manuscript ; Seward's 



