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more enduring storm of which all shall be eye- 

 witnesses, and in which all shall be personally 

 concerned. At that appalling season when 

 those who passed the hours of life in careless 

 indifference, shall be crying, Help ! Help ! 

 against the terrors of the Lord ; then shall 

 every one who has fled to Him as the refuge 

 from the wrath to come, find in that refuge an 

 adequate shelter from that last, the decisive 

 storm. 



In the month of October, I took the Packet 

 Boat from St. John, to the bay of Annapolis, 

 Nova Scotia. This peninsula was originally 

 called Acadia, by the French, who began a 

 Settlement in it as early as 1604, before they 

 took possession, or had built the smallest hut 

 in Canada. On their first arrival they found 

 the country, and the neighbouring forests, 

 peopled with small nations of Indians, who 

 went under the common name of Abenakies. 

 They were generally of more sociable manners, 

 though equally fond of raising the war-whoop 

 with other Indian nations. The fur trade was 

 soon opened with these natives, and the Church 

 of Rome was not idle in sending Missionaries 

 among them, for the purpose of propagating 

 her Faith. Every Jesuitical means was used, 

 and that successfully, in bringing them to a 



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