We Had Determined That My Wife Should
Return Alone At The Beginning Of Winter, When I Intended To Go To A
Part Of The Country In Which, Under The Existing Circumstances Of
The War, A Lady Might Not Feel Herself Altogether Comfortable.
I
proposed staying in America over the winter, and returning in the
spring; and this programme I have carried out with sufficient
exactness.
The Arabia touched at Halifax; and as the touch extended from 11 A.M.
to 6 P.M. we had an opportunity of seeing a good deal of that
colony; not quite sufficient to justify me at this critical age in
writing a chapter of travels in Nova Scotia, but enough perhaps to
warrant a paragraph. It chanced that a cousin of mine was then in
command of the troops there, so that we saw the fort with all the
honors. A dinner on shore was, I think, a greater treat to us even
than this. We also inspected sundry specimens of the gold which is
now being found for the first time in Nova Scotia, as to the glory
and probable profits of which the Nova Scotians seemed to be fully
alive. But still, I think the dinner on shore took rank with us as
the most memorable and meritorious of all that we did and saw at
Halifax. At seven o'clock on the morning but one after that we
were landed at Boston.
At Boston I found friends ready to receive us with open arms,
though they were friends we had never known before.
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