This mercurial very ancient gentleman only appears in these records because hewas the only person we saw in this Province who was in a hurry to doanything, or to go anywhere.

We cannot leave Halifax without remarking that it is a city of greatprivate virtue, and that its banks are sound. The appearance of itspaper-money is not, however, inviting. We of the United States leadthe world in pretty paper-money; and when I exchanged my crisp,armsome greenbacks for the dirty, flimsy, ill-executed notes of theDominion, at a dead loss of value, I could not be reconciled to thetransaction. I sarcastically called the stuff I received"Confederate money;" but probably no one was wounded by the severity;for perhaps no one knew what a resemblance in badness there isbetween the "Confederate" notes of our civil war and the notes of theDominion; and, besides, the Confederacy was too popular in theProvinces for the name to be a reproach to them. I wish I hadthought of something more insulting to say.