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could scarce keep above water. However, our great Pilot brought us safe to land between one and two in the morning. Saturday, 27. About three we came to the New Inn, and rested till between six and seven. Thence, going gently on to King- horn, we had a pleasant passage to Leith. After preaching, I walked to my lovely lodging at Coates, and found restwas sweet. Sun. 28. I preached first at our own House, and atnoonon the Castle-Hill. I never saw such a congregation there before. But the chair was placedjust opposite to the sun : But I soon forgot it, while I expounded those words, " I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God." In the evening the whole audience seemed to feel, " Without holiness no man shall see the Lord." Tues. 30.-I had the happiness of conversing with the Earl ofH and his Lady, at Dunbar. I could not but observe both the easiness of his behaviour, (such as we find in all the Scottish Nobility,) and the fineness of his appearance, greatly set off by a milk-white head of hair. Wednesday, 31. I took a view of the stupendous bridge, about ten miles from Dunbar ; which is thrown over the deep glen that runs between the two mountains, commonly called the Peas. I doubt whether Louis the Fourteenth ever raised such a bridge as this. In the evening I preached at Berwick-upon-Tweed ; Thurs- day, JUNE 1, at Alnwick. Friday, 3. I was desired to lay the first stone of the preaching-house there. Avery large congre- gation attending, we spent some time on the spot, in solemn prayer, and singing praise to God. About noon I preached in the Town-Hall at Morpeth ; in the evening, at Newcastle. How different is the spirit of this congregation to that of most of those I have seen lately ! June, 1786.] JUNE 4.-(Being Whitsunday.) I preached at eight to an amazing congregation, at the Ballast-Hills ; but it was doubled by that at the Fell in the afternoon. But it was supposed that at the Garth-Heads, in the evening, was as large as both together. On Monday and Tuesday the congregationwas larger than I ever remember. Wednesday, 7. Atfivewe had asolemn parting. About noon I preached at North-Shields, in a tent erected near the town, to a very numerous congregation. In the evening I