ses, he had still three
hundred pounds left, and this money he left in the Quebec Bank, to use
as he might find necessary. His expenditure had been very great. First,
there was the removal of so large a family, and the passage out; then he
had procured at Liverpool a large quantity of cutlery and tools,
furniture, etc., all of which articles were cheaper there than at
Quebec. At Quebec he had also much to purchase: all the most expensive
portion of his house; such as windows ready glazed, stoves, boarding for
floors, cupboards, and partitions; salt provisions, crockery of every
description, two small wagons ready to be put together, several casks of
nails, and a variety of things which it would be too tedious to mention.
Procuring these, with the expenses of living, had taken away all his
money, except the three hundred pounds I have mentioned.

It was on the 13th of May that the embarkation took place, and it was
not until the afternoon that all was prepared, and Mrs. Campbell and her
nieces were conducted down to the _bateaux_, which lay at the wharf,
with the troops all ready on board of them. The Governor and his
aides-de-camp, besides many other influential people of Quebec, escorted
them down, and as soon as they had paid their adieus, the word was
given, the soldiers in the _bateaux_ gave three cheers and away they
went from the wharf into the stream. For a short time there was waving
of handkerchiefs and other tokens of good-will on the part of those who
were on the wharf; but that was soon left behind them, and the family
found themselves separated from their acquaintances and silently
listening to the measured sound of the oars, as they dropped into the
water.

And it is not to be wondered at that they were silent, for all were
occupied with their own thoughts. They called to mind the beautiful
park at Wexton, which they had quitted, after having resided there so
long and so happily; the hall, with all its splendor and all its
comfort, rose up in their remembrance; each room with its furniture,
each window with its view, was recalled to their memories; they had
crossed the Atlantic, and were now about to leave civilization and
comfort behind them--to isolate themselves in the Canadian woods--to
trust to their own resources, their own society, and their own
exertions. It was, indeed, the commencement of a new life, and for which
they felt themselves little adapted, after the luxuries they had enjoyed
in their