presence of the British Fall, over which a still greater volume of
water seems to be precipitated, and in the midst of which a white
cloud of spray was soaring till it rose far above the summit of the
ledge and was dispersed by the wind. This day we walked as far as the
Table Rock which overhangs one side of the Horse-shoe Fall, and made a
closer acquaintance with it; but intimacy serves rather to heighten
than to diminish the effect produced on the eye and the ear by this
wonderful phenomenon.

The following to Lord Grey is of the same date:--

Our tour has been thus far prosperous in all respects except weather,
which has been by no means favourable. I attended a great Agricultural
Meeting at Hamilton last week, and had an opportunity of expressing my
sentiments at a dinner, in the presence of six or seven hundred
substantial Upper Canada yeomen--a body of men not easily to be
matched.

It is indeed a glorious country, and after passing, as I have done
within the last fortnight, from the citadel of Quebec to the Falls of
Niagara, rubbing shoulders the while with its free and perfectly
independent inhabitants, one begins to doubt whether it be possible to
acquire a sufficient knowledge of man or nature, or to obtain an
insight into the future of nations, without visiting America.

A portion of the speech to which he refers in the foregoing letter may be
here given, as a specimen of his occasional addresses, which were very
numerous; for though the main purposes of his life were such as 'wrote
themselves in action not in word,' he regarded his faculty of ready and
effective speaking as an engine which it was his duty to use, whenever