On the second day after my return to Prescot, the boat with our luggage and the three Evelyns arrived; and by the post of that day, I heard that the Glasgow emigrants had, after an uncommonly short passage, reached Quebec. Thus all my concerns were brought quickly to an agreeable issue. I had provided a suitable location in good time, and every thing promised so well, that I then chartered a schooner, belonging to the town of Dundas, at the head of Lake Ontario, to take my own family and the whole of the party, to the mouth of the Debit river, from which I was informed, that transportation to Nox, where our lots lay, would easily be effected.

But this arrangement, which with our means was the most eligible, had nearly been defeated by the emigrants from Glasgow; who, when they reached Cornwall, were enticed by some Americans to think of preferring the United States, and I was obliged myself to go to them; for Mr. Pullicate having informed me that they were all unexceptionable characters, and that several among them were young men possessed of more than a common share of talent, I was loth to let them pass from me.

I reached them just in time, for those who had yielded themselves to the persuasion of the Americans, and they were the very men to whom Mr. Pullicate had directed my chiefest attention, were assembled on the margin of the river, and waiting for a boat expected to ferry them across.