Newfoundland. Foggy weather. Icebergs seen. Land seen. Emigrant's joy.
Ship spoken. Cross Gulf of St. Lawrence. Enter River. Scenery, Etc.
Arrive before Quebec. To Montreal. Thence by Ottawa to Kingston. Thence
to Hamilton. Settle near Brantford on a Bush-farm. Shifts for
furniture. WILLIAM'S narrow escape from death in logging. His relish of
Bush sights and sounds. Wants a companion. Resolutions formed and kept.
Remarks incident to it. Conclusion.

Book VI

Address to Rural Life. Logging Bee described. The feast. Loggers' jests
and other incidents. Burning log heaps. Loggers' Song. WILLIAM'S
thoughts, and employments in Autumn. The Autumnal garb of trees.
Reflections connected therewith. The family's Sabbath-day employments.
Beginning of their hardships. WILLIAM leaves the bush for village life,
but soon returns. Father's narrow escape from being crushed. Winter
employments. Preparations for sugar making. Process described.
Sugarers' Song. Conclusion.

Book VII

Address to Memory. Spring time described. Thoughts and fancies
connected with it. Build a log barn. Spring employments. Increase of
trials. WILLIAM'S sickness. His song on Christian Warfare. Good to
himself from its composition. Leaves Bush for village again. Tinkers in
the country. Thoughts and feelings in connection with it. Preaches in
public under peculiar circumstances. Introduced to his future father-
in-law's family. Visits their house. Reception. Description of his
future wife and sisters. Anecdote. Commences business. Visits the
States to buy tools. Takes Niagara in his way. Scenery above Lewiston.