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EXTRACTS FROM A JOURNAL,
EXTRACTS FROM A JOURNAL,
&c. &c. Bermuda, March 15, 1860. " My dear Hawkins , "You are aware that I have ceased for some years to forward to the Society the Journals of my Voyages of Visitation. [A] It did not appear to me that the cause of the Society, or of my diocese, would be much advanced, or individuals much interested or edified by detailed reports of visits and services with which those who had read the former Journals would be familiar. "The sad state of religious destitution in many settlements
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PART I.—WHITE BAY.
PART I.—WHITE BAY.
Thursday, July 7th. At sea, and Little Harbour Deep. —Passed Cape St. John, at eight o'clock; several French vessels in the harbour: passed Partridge Point soon after twelve o'clock, and entered White Bay. I had intended to visit, in the first place, the settlements on the south side of the bay, but the wind being adverse, we stood across to Little Harbour Deep, not knowing that we should find any "livers" there; but hoping to be able from thence to visit, or there to be visited by, the families
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PART II.—BAY OF ISLANDS.
PART II.—BAY OF ISLANDS.
Seventh Sunday after Trinity, August 7th. At sea, and in Lark Harbour, Bay of Islands. —The wind continued to blow, and the sea to rage and swell all night; and the rolling and dashing of the waves against the side of the vessel were so incessant and violent that I could hardly remain in my berth. At two o'clock the vessel was put about, when I heard such a banging and thumping of the rudder, that I ran on deck to ascertain the cause. I found the wheel deserted, there being only two men on deck,
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AN ACCOUNT
AN ACCOUNT
Of the Places visited, with the time of Arriving at and Sailing from the same, and of the Distances between them, by the Bishop of Newfoundland , in his Visitation of the Northern and Southern Shores of Newfoundland , in the Summer of 1859 . Typographical errors corrected in text: ...
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