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over a large portion of it. His Lordship also un- 
dertook a second tour of inspection in 1850, 
and completed tlie circuit of the whole. The 
first of these visitations was performed in four 
months, and in it he travelled upwards of 3000 
miles; whilst, in the second, 4000 miles was 
traversed amidst great difficulties, privations, 
and hardships, occupying a period of nearly 
nine months. 
The spiritual destitution which his Lordship 
everywhere witnessed, together with the lively 
and growing feeling of piety existing amidst 
the exiled members of the Church, whom he 
found amidst all classes scattered out over the 
Continent, induced the determination in the 
Bishop of returning to England, and endeavour- 
ing to effect the subdivision of this Diocese, 
thus securing also that multiplication of inferior 
Clergy, which always accompanies the extension 
of the Episcopate. 
This stupendous work his Lordship accom- 
plished in the year 1853 ; wherein, on St. 
Andrew's Day, two other suffragan Bishops 
were consecrated for South Africa, the Eight 
Eev. John Armstrong, D. D., Vicar of Tidden- 
ham, Gloucestershire, to the See of Graham's 
Town ; and the Eight Eev. John "William Co- 
lenso, D. D., Eector of Forncett St. Mary, Nor- 
folk, to that of Natal. Dr. Gray, the Bishop 
