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AT THE CONFLUENCE. 
course of tlie afternoon; but he rallied towards the 
evening. 
At six p.M. anchored about six miles above the Con- 
fluence. 
October ^th . — There was a very heavy tornado last 
night, followed by a pelting rain. At five in the 
evening it was beautifully clear; and as all were 
anxious to ascertain the condition of our friends at 
the model farm, the vessel was got under weigh by six 
o’clock, and was dropping with the current when, in 
rounding a point, she was carried among the bushes; 
but there being three fathoms’ water, did not touch 
the ground. A hedge was carried out from the lar- 
board bow to the middle stream and weighed, by 
which means the vessel got clear. The steam was got 
up soon afterwards, and at about eight we were 
gratified by a sight of the Eglinton Tent, a conspi- 
cuous object on Stirling Hill. 
The quantity of cleared land, the advance made in 
the building of the superintendent’s house, and the 
cheerful aspect of the w'hole place, seemed to indicate 
a degree of prosperity and industry that induced us 
to think that he and his companions had been mer- 
cifully protected from disease ; but our hopes here 
were again doomed to disappointment. 
No sooner was the anchor dropped than Dr. Stanger 
and 1 proceeded on board the ‘Amelia,’ and found 
there Mr. Kingdon, schoolmaster, in the low stage of 
fever; and Mr. Ansell, the gardener, lying in his cot 
