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repose, were tinged with a hue of deep melancholy, but 

 when animated — and that was almost alwaj's the case — 

 beaming with good humour, intelligence, and playfulness. 

 Light of limb and agile as a roebuck, his every step was 

 gTaceful. These natural advantag-es had been cultivated 

 by education, and his manner polished by association with 

 the highest society in Europe — every countrj^ and court of 

 which was familiar to him, and almost every language of 

 which he spoke with ease and fluency. 



In early life he had entered the navy of his native 

 country, and there became an excellent mathematician 

 and an admirable practical navigator ; but having soon 

 inherited the title and large possessions of his father, a 

 distinguished officer, he was appointed to a place at court, 

 when, " disdaining a slothful life," he took to the pursuit of 

 pleasure of every descripti(3n, an exercise which is very 

 seldom found to be conducive to the improvement of a 

 man's patrimony — as he soon began to feel — and in conse- 

 quence had visited Canada to look after a large tract of 

 land which his more prudent parent had purchased some 

 years previously. 



He was a delightful companion, and the very best- 

 tempered man I was ever on a cruise with. 



I saw him angry once, and only once. We had set out 

 on an expedition to fish the rivers on the coast of Labrador 

 with the ostensible intention of being absent from Canada 

 for one month only, at the expiration of which he was 



