Seabury are in Nova Scotia but Ihave as yet no correspondence with them, the distance not being less than 400 miles."

As a relief from such thoughts as these he turned to the active duties of his calling. "TI shall not, (said he) regret the disappointment and chagrin I have hitherto met with, if it pleases God to make me the instrument of spreading the knowledge of his Gospel amongst the heathen and reclaiming only one lost sheep of the House of Israel."

In this spirit he set out on the 24 June 1784 to visit the new settlements on the St Lawrence, Lake Ontario and Niagara falls where he arrived on the 18th of the same month. Already 3,500 loyalists had left Montreal that season for Upper Canada. He found the lands in general, good ; a range of settlements had been formed from the Canadian boundaries to Oswegatchy. His reception by the Mohawks, who were settled about ninety miles from the falls, was very affectionate. Even the windows of the church in which he officiated were crowded with those who were anxious to behold again their old pastor from whom they had been so long separated. He officiated also at Cadaraqui where he found a garrison of' three companies, about thirty good houses and some 1500 souls who intended to settle higher up the lake. He next proceeded to the bay of Kente, where

1 Letter of 17th June, 1785.

REV. JOHN STUART, D. D. 517

some more Mohawks had settled, whd were busy building houses and laying the foundations of their new village "named Tyonderoga."!