not appear to have impressed him very favourably, for he says he “never heard so much poor speaking in his life.” Edinburgh he rapidly visited, before his vessel sailed from Liverpool; but not a line of record concerning that visit survives, and unfortunately it was never to be repeated. About fifty years later, he would fain have been back in the Scottish capital, in order to be present at the first General Presbyterian Council, held at Edinburgh in July 1877; but failing health by that time prevented