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trees leafed out, and their abundant blossoming filled the air with delicious fragrance.

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The church of our denomination is a small brick edifice, similar in construction and external appearance to the Jewish Synagogue, which is but little distant also in the same street. It was my good fortune to have letters to a Jewish family in the city. What was my surprize, when ushered into their dwelling, to behold a portrait of the Rev. Dr. Channing. I saw much of them and received expressions and proofs of kindness which it will never, I fear, be in my power to repay. In partial justice to them, I cannot deny myself the satisfaction of saying that it is not often one's lot to meet persons of such intelligence, sensibility, refinement, hospitality and genuine Christian feelings. They receive attention from the first circles of the city, visit on the most friendly terms with Episcopalians, Presbyterians, &c. and are very much respected and beloved. In about ten days I left Richmond in the river-steamboat. The sail to Norfolk affords much variety and is extremely pleasant. You pass many fine old seats of the Virginia planters- Jamestown where the English first settled-the Rip Raps of Presidential memory &c. The night we were on the Chesapeake there was a violent gale, and the next morning we passed two wrecked vessels that had been blown over with their sails set. Our Capt. assured us that all board must have inevitably perished. We passed within a few feet of them and it

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was a most distressing spectacle.

silence of death upon the waters.

There was the Sadness pressed

upon every heart, and was visible upon every brow.

* *Thou deep and dark blue ocean *

Upon the watery plain

The wrecks are all thy seeds, nor doth remain
A shadow of man's ravage save his own,
When, for a moment, like a drop of rain,

He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan,

Without a grave, unknell'd uncoffin'd, and unknown.

The afternoon of the same day I reached Baltimore, having been two days and a night on the passage. In a few days in Boston again.

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NINE months in the East again.

Ellsworth was the sphere of my ministerial labors. This town is twenty-four miles south-east of Bangor, and plaseantly situated on either bank of Union river. I have heard it called by a traveller the handsomest town on the shore road from Halifax to Boston. All towns much larger must not be brought into the comparison. Ellsworth is a small town containing no more than fifteen or sixteen hundred inhabitants. Its local situation however will not suffer much compared with that of any of the eastern towns. Along the banks of the rapid river are some bold beetling crags, and a wild woody eminence on which the wigwams of the Penobscot Indians are seen at certain seasons of the year, where it would not be difficult to get up a little romantic sensibility. The view from some parts of the town of the Schoodic hills on the North East, of the broad blue waters of Patten's bay and the Mount Desert Chain on the South, is such as deeply to impress the imagination of the lover of nature.

The village contains about five hundred inhabitants and has an appearance of newness. Out of the

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CHARACTER OF THE INHABITANTS.

village the town exhibits all the evidences of long settlement. The inhabitants are remarkable for resolution, enterprize, and natural vigor of understanding. Every thing is taken up with warmth ; and almost all subjects, especially trade, politics and religion, give rise to competition-the first two, at times, to bitter jealousy and its evil consequences. The social circle is very good, though small. Several families, some of which are from Massachusetts, have given considerable attention to literary pursuits and would be deemed cultivated any where. The inhabitants generally are something uncouth and do not appreciate what are denominated the humanities of life. Among Eastern towns however E*, is not alone in this respect. When I went to E*. there were two religious Societies in the place, a Baptist and Trinitarian. Liberal Christianity had never been preached, and its character was hardly known. The old minister of the Trinitarian Society (who is now living and is a man of liberal mind and genuine Christian feelings), though not regarded by the Orthodox clergy as perfectly sound in the faith, never was an acknowledged Unitarian. His successor, who was for some years a preacher to the seamen in Portland, and whose urbanity, intelligence, and social harmony are still among my pleasant recollections, is, I believe, regarded as sound—without blemish and without spot. I do not mean by this that he is bigotedfar from it. He has too much of the milk of hu

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man kindness in him for that. Being the first to enter the place as the representative of our denomination, I expected to meet with much prejudice and opposition, and was told that such would be the case. To my surprize and very agreeable disappointment it was not so. The only place for worship that could be obtained at the outset was a school-room in the second story of a building near the bridge that crosses Union river. Every thing that passed over the bridge shook the building and pulpit very much and not perceiving the cause at first, I thought it was an earthquake. In a few Sabbaths we obtained the use of the Baptist Church for a little while, and at length removed to the Court House which was to be our permanent place of worship. This was a new building and but partially completed. The Society finished the Court-room, erecting open pews, a very convenient pulpit and and singing-seats, at an expense of five hundred dollars. The larger part of this sum they expected the town would refund. A Sabbath School was formed which flourished very well, and a Benevolent Society among the ladies-which was the means of doing considerable good. A subscription for the erection of a church was started at the expiration of a few months, and an amount of twenty-seven hundred dollars easily obtained.

The Lyceum producing, as is thought, a very favorable influence upon the moral and religious as well as intellectual character of a people, one was

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