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to make the draught into that place instead of from it. We 

 have luxurious baths of tepid water every morning, with a little 

 cold after to freshen up, and above all the bright sun and clear 

 air. The worst of it is that one misses all these things when 

 one goes South." 



In the summer, he was again busy at the Boston shells, 

 spending part of the time with his wife by the sea, where his 

 friend Mr. Hyatt (whom he first met at the Mammoth Cave, 

 p. 212) had arranged to work with him. Philip took with him 

 a young assistant, Andrew Reid, " a hard and willing worker 

 and a cheerful companion, in a dreary job \ " part of which he 

 executed at the rooms in Boston ; but resolved in future to have 

 the work sent him to Montreal,* as he preferred the purer air of 

 his home. He preached one Sunday evening at the coloured 

 Baptist Church at Cambridge-port. " It was crowded with a 

 remarkably attentive and intelligent congregation \ as great a 

 contrast from the Southern slave-element, as the West and 

 North Irish. They were having prayer-meeting when we went 

 in, and Andrew naturally thought it was singing. . . . They 

 fall into the chant, just as the Irish in emotion leave our 

 language and fall into their own. During the chant, the 

 6 Dear Father ' was ' You : ' in the formal service, speaking 

 tone and Thou. . . . There was only one door, and it was half- 

 past nine [when the service and a concert were over] ; yet there 

 was no f thrutching ' in going out, but numbers of hands held 

 out for me. I am to preach again in the afternoon next 

 Sunday. Although crowded and hot, no unusual smell ; they 

 are great bathers. ... It is a relief in this cold place to find 

 a little warmth and faith. We passed a Methodist Church near, 

 where there was wild howling: the Baptists are the quieter folk." 



In this year (187 1) there was a satisfactory proof that the 

 labours of the Sanitary Association had not been in vain. In 

 their Report for 1868 they referred to a disgraceful breach of 



* January 2, 1872, he wrote : " The Boston people are going to send 

 their work for me to do here. As I have filled all the show-cases in our 

 own Museum, the rest can wait. The Boston collection is seen by such 

 shoals of people, that it ought to be arranged, and I am glad to earn some 

 more money." 



