[40] Dr. Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit is full of delineations and anecdotes of prominent preachers. Their energy, zeal, and courage are viewed in connection with their racy individual peculiarities. What some of the Methodists had and have to endure and suffer, is indicated by a direction from a circuit, in want of a preacher, to the Western Conference: ‘Be sure you send us a good swimmer,’—it being the duty of the minister in that region frequently to swim wide and bridgeless streams to keep his appointments.
[41] Mémoires de Rochambeau.
[42] Rev. Archibald Carlyle’s Autobiography.
[43] The Warden, Barchester Towers, and Framley Parsonage, by A. Trollope; Vincenzo, by Ruffini; Mademoiselle La Quintinie, par Geo. Sand; La Maudit, par L’Abbe ——; Adam Bede; Chronicles of Carlingford, &c.
[44] Dr. J. W. Draper.
[45] Calvert’s Scenes and Thoughts in Europe.
[46] Recent Italian journals speak of a project to construct a bridge over the Straits of Messina, to unite Sicily with the mainland. The bridge proposed will be a suspension one, on a new system, the chains being of cast-steel, and strong enough to support the weight of several railway trains.
[47] Travels through the Middle Settlements of North America, in 1759-60. By Rev. Andrew Burnaby.
[48] Bagehot.
[49] Sir Astley Cooper’s nephew presented to Dr. Valentine Mott, the late eminent New York surgeon, an elegantly-wrought case of amputating instruments, the handles of which are made of the wood and the blades of iron from old London Bridge, whose oak timbers were laid in 1176.