[1] Liverpool.
[2] Richard Watson (1781-1833), Wesleyan Minister.
[3] Richard Lemon Lander (1804-1834) accompanied Hugh Clapperton the
African explorer on his travels and wrote accounts of these.
[4] Adam Fergusson.
[5] Dead-lights = strong shutters made to fit the cabin window to
prevent the water entering in a storm.
[6] A fish caught on the rocky shores of New England (Tautoga
Americana).
[7] See a description of this phenomena in the _Nautical Mag._ Oct.
1832.
[8] Grampus, a fish similar to a whale, but carnivorous.
[9] Presumably Basil Hall (1788-1844) who wrote books of his travels.
[10] Frances Trollope (1780-1863) wife of Thomas Anthony Trollope,
writer and novelist; visited America 1827-30.
[11] Founded in 1831 by Étienne Girard, a native of France, for the
education of orphans.
[12] Richard Crook, a friend.
[13] Andrew Jackson, President, 1829-1837.
[14] William Tipping, a director of the L.N.W. railway in England.
[15] Pishey Thompson (1784-1862), historian of Boston.
[16] Alexander I, Tsar of Russia, 1801-1825.
[17] Since removed as unsafe.
[18] The Canal from the Rideau Lake connects the Ottawa River and Lake
Ontario.
[19] John George Lambton, Earl of Durham (1792-1840), was High
Commissioner in Canada. Author of "Report on the affairs of British
North America."
[20] The boundary between Canada and the United States.
[21] Built in 1823-32.
[22] Built by the French in 1755.
[23] All three had recently been rebuilt.
[24] Died at Boston 1832.
[25] Erected 1825-42 to commemorate the battle of Bunker Hill 1775.
[26] _Constitution_, American ship in war of 1813.
[27] William Ellery Channing, D.D., 1780-1842, Unitarian Minister at
Boston from 1803 until his death.
[28] The sunken reefs which made this dangerous to navigation were
removed by nitro-glycerine explosions in 1876 and 1885.
[29] The Catskill Mountains rise abruptly from the Hudson 2000-3000 feet
high.
[30] Dr. Priestley died at Northumberland, Pa., 1804.
[31] Botan. Conocarpus.
[32] A light four-wheeled carriage.
[33] Thomas Hamilton, 1789-1842.
[34] Two small islands south-west of Wexford.
Transcriber's Note:
Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Bearing
in mind that the bulk of this text is a personal journal, irregular
punctuation, use of hyphens and variant spellings remain as printed.