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314 I have already mentioned that During the time I was in the United States I never found it uncomfortably cold. Nothing however of this kind cd be said of my experience of the climate of Canada. The only ferry I had to cross, which had become impassable on account of the accumulations of ice, was that into Canada at Detroit. This was a bad beginning & by it? I lost a pace I had paid for in a Hotel Car. We had not gone far on Canadian soil before some of the iron works of the engine broke in consequence of the intense cold of the morning. At Niagara I was detained a day by a snow storm. It was so violent a storm that it put an end to all traffic for twenty four hours. The train I had intended using? was to have left at 6h:30m, A.M. I struggled to the Station through the snow that had drifted? during the night to the depth of three feet, only to find that I had come to no purpose. During the whole of the day you cd not see ten yards before you, the unclear was snowing & drifting to thickly. The next morning when I left for Toronto the thermometer was standing at 12 [degree symbol] below zero. On the following unclear at Toronto, it was 19 [degree symbol] degrees below zero. I left Toronto for the East by the unclear train that had been over the rails in that section for some days. While I was at Kingston there came on a second gale of wind, but this time accompanied by blinding rain, every drop of which as it fell froze on the zero cold ground & snow. I was staying with the Bishop of Ontario, & was to have been taken over the Schools of the place, but the day was such that the Scholars were