At Toronto, the ministers, Mr .-- now Sir John--Macdonald, and Dr .-- now Sir Charles--Tupper were my principal welcomers; and I dined then with the Cabinet, as in 1851 I had with Lord Elgin's in (I think) the same hall.

At Ottawa I found myself full of friends, and visited Lord Dufferin.

At Montreal the wealthy merchant, Mr.Mackay of Kildonan (since departed and gone up higher), was my generous host: and there in one of the hardest winters known I often made acquaintance with the splendid gallop of his sleighs, all furs and colour and delightful excitement: on one occasion having nearly had nose and ears frost-bitten till my neighbour with his fur gloves and snow rubbed life into them again.

With Dr.Dawson of M'Gill University I had plenty of geological talk, especially about the new found Eozoa of the St.Lawrence stratum,--and with his clever son, and my cousin, Professor Selwyn.
Thereafter I went south, the welcome guest of other cousins, the Vaughan-Tuppers of Brooklyn, among my most hospitable friends over there: and we routed out all about our family in America, as recorded for ten generations in Freeman's "History of Massachusetts." And I feasted at Mr.Trocke's on trout from "Tupper Lake" in the Adirondacks,--the name coming from an ancestor, not as after me, though sometimes thought so; and I met with many points both of family and of authorial interest.

Then I was entertained by the New England Society, which, amongst abounding luxuries, still produces as a characteristic dish the frugal pork and beans of Puritan times.