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 a crusade in many of the large centres of population in the provinces, for the discussion of the new principles in colonisation, and he obtained the adhesion to those principles by a large number of influential men, among whom may be mentioned John Mill, Malthus, Buckie, Sir Francis Burdett, Labouchere, Milne, John Abel Smith, and Sir H. Parnell; and he had scattered abroad by pamphlet, prospectus, and all available literature, full information as to the rise and progress of emigration.

The entries in the note-book relating to these proceedings show a dogged perseverance, a determined will, and singular force of character—the work of any one day, from early morning till late at night, being as much as the work of any ordinary man in a week. Occasionally the notes are varied by records such as the following:—

The last entries in the diary are as follows:—