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142 With this purpose he left the Highlands, and came with his sister as far as Ganderscleugh, on his way to Glasgow, to take a passage to Canada. But winter was now set in, and as he thought it advisable to wait for a spring passage, when the St Lawrence should be open, he settled among us for the few months of his stay in Britain. As we said before, the respectable old man met with a deference and attention from all ranks of society; and when spring returned, he was so satisfied with his quarters, that he did not renew the purpose of his voyage. Janet was afraid of the sea, and he himself felt the infirmities of age and hard service more than he had at first expected. And, as he confessed to the clergyman, and my worthy principal, Mr Cleishbotham, "it was better staying with kenn'd friends, than going farther, and fareing worse."

He therefore established himself as an inhabitant of Ganderscleugh, to the great satisfaction, as we have already said, of all