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Excerpt from Two Lectures on British Columbia Mn president - It is just eighteen months since I came a stranger amongst you, to learn and not to teach. When I look back through that short period and see how my position has changed, I may be pardoned, if I keenly feel the re sponsibility it entails, and deprecate, in some measure, the importance attached to my Opinions. It is true thati am no longer a stranger, that my name has become familiar to almost every household in tho land, .that l'haye been en trusted with a most important duty; but all this, I think, may be attributed as much to circumstance as to merit. I first came here for the purpose of compiling a brief history of the Colony, to be published in another form, which gave me the fullest opportunity of understanding its real condi tion. The favorable conclusions I drew from the evidence before me were made known to the community at a public meeting in the theatre; and thus, it was natural, on coming the second time, to complete my original business, a. General desire should prevail for me to visit the upper country and judge honestly of its future, by my mining experience in Califioruia, I believe, it is admitted by all, I have discharged the onerous duties of that exploration faithfully in every respect; that I have omitted nothing, overlooked nothing, neglected nothing having a remote bearing on the future of the Colony, and I am here to night, after five months' excessive labor exposure and fatigue to submit to you the final result of my investigations. 1 con fess I have felt much anxiety about the character of this meeting, for if my labors are to do any good, so abused and slandered has the Colony been, I must riot speak on this matter as a private individual, but for the community, and under their sanction. The intellectual and social element I see present encourages me to speak boldly, while it warns me to speak honestly. I shall do both, 'and if I succeed in gaining the concurrence of those before whom I stand to night, I shall consider I have accomplished a success of Which any man may be proud. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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