This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1843 edition. Excerpt: ...tell me, and as I indeed feel myself, home I must go." Under these circumstances, Lord Sydenham had taken the necessary steps for enabling himself to quit Canada at the close of the session. He sent home his formal resignation by the mail, which left Kingston on the 25th of July; and he had previously obtained ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1843 edition. Excerpt: ...tell me, and as I indeed feel myself, home I must go." Under these circumstances, Lord Sydenham had taken the necessary steps for enabling himself to quit Canada at the close of the session. He sent home his formal resignation by the mail, which left Kingston on the 25th of July; and he had previously obtained from the Home Government a leave of absence for some months on the ground of 1841. health, which would have dispensed him from the necessity of remaining at his post until he received intelligence of the acceptance of his resignation. As the session advanced his health rather improved under the influence of the purer air of Kingston, the occasional exercise he was enabled to take there, and perhaps also the excitement of his success. He wrote towards the end of August in the highest spirits on this last account, as has been seen in the extracts already given from his private letters. It was but a few days after the date of the last of these, that the fatal accident occurred which was to bring his labours to a premature close, and annihilate the anticipations he had begun to indulge of a not inglorious repose in the society of the friends from whom he had so long been separated. On the 4th of September he was returning home from an excursion on horseback, when in ascending a hill at a canter his horse stumbled over a stone and fell, Lord Sydenham's right leg being unfortunately caught beneath the animal. The horse was soon on his feet, and moved forward some little distance, dragging the rider with his foot in the stirrup. From this position he was soon extricated and carried to his residence, then close at hand. On examination it was found that the principal bone of the leg was fractured obliquely, and a large and fearful wound created...
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