Mine host, unwilling to have another of his own name added to the community in this unauthorized way, after I spent a night and a day at his house, gave me my present name.
He had been reading the "Lady of the Lake," and was pleased to regard me as a suitable person to wear this, one of Scotland's many famous names.
Considering the noble hospitality and manly character of Nathan Johnson, I have felt that he, better than I, illustrated the virtues of the great Scottish chief.

Sure I am, that had any slave-catcher entered his domicile, with a view to molest any one of his household, he would have shown himself like him of the "stalwart hand." The reader will be amused at my ignorance, when I tell the notions I had of the state of northern wealth, enterprise, and civilization.

Of wealth and refinement, I supposed the north had none.

My _Columbian Orator_, which was almost my only book, had not done much to enlighten me concerning northern society.

The impressions I had received were all wide of the truth.