Harmon's journal. 



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Wednesday, September 3. «Two men have ar- 

 rived from Cumberland House, situated on Stur- 

 geon Lake, who have brought me letters from my 

 friends below, which communicate the melancholy 

 intelligence, that my father, after a severe illness 

 of but a few weeks, expired, on the 25th of June, 

 1805. The protector and guide of my youth, 

 whom I revered and loved, I shall never more 

 see in this world. It would have afforded me in- 

 expressible satisfaction, could I have seen and con- 

 versed with him, previously to his departure.* But 

 " the" Judge of the earth has done right," and " his 

 will be done." I am not left to mourn, under this 

 severe bereavement, without consolation ; for his 

 christian character and profession, afford the com- 

 fortable hope, that he has ceased to sin and to suf- 

 fer, and now participates in blessedness, such as 

 this miserable world cannot afford. May his pious 

 example stimulate me, and his other children, to 

 follow him in the path which conducts to a better 

 world. 



I have also received letters from Mr. A. N. 

 M c Leod, and Mr. J. M c Donald, which inform me, 

 that I am to pass the ensuing winter at Cumber- 

 land House, for which place, I shall leave this, a 

 few days hence. 



Thursday , September 11. Cumberland House. 

 I arrived here this afternoon, and find Messrs. J. 

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