the voyage greatly. Let me entreat you to move about much, and
take a walk with the boys to Leith. I think they have still many
places to see there, and I wish you would indulge them in this
respect. Mr. Scales is the best person I know for showing them the
sailcloth-weaving, etc., and he would have great pleasure in
undertaking this. My dear, I trust soon to be with you, and that
through the goodness of God we shall meet all well.'

'There are two vessels lying here with emigrants for America, each
with eighty people on board, at all ages, from a few days to
upwards of sixty! Their prospects must be very forlorn to go with
a slender purse for distant and unknown countries.'

'Lighthouse Yacht, off Greenock, Aug. 18th.

'It was after CHURCH-TIME before we got here, but we had prayers
upon deck on the way up the Clyde. This has, upon the whole, been
a very good voyage, and Captain Wemyss, who enjoys it much, has
been an excellent companion; we met with pleasure, and shall part
with regret.'

Strange that, after his long experience, my grandfather should have
learned so little of the attitude and even the dialect of the
spiritually-minded; that after forty-four years in a most religious
circle, he could drop without sense of incongruity from a period of
accepted phrases to 'trust his wife was GETTING UP HER SPIRITS,' or
think to reassure her as to the character of Captain Wemyss by
mentioning that he had read prayers on the deck of his frigate
'AGREEABLY TO THE ARTICLES OF WAR'! Yet there is no doubt--and it
is one of the most agreeable features of the kindly series--that he