Excerpt from Journal of the Visitation of the Diocese of Nova Scotia, in New Brunswick, in the Autumn of 1840, by the Right Rev. The Lord Bishop of Nova Scotia: Communicated to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts

On Wednesday, the 14th October, I proceeded to Annapolis (38 miles), and was glad to see the churches on the road, at Wilmot, Bridge Town, and Granville, in good order. I had an opportunity, also, for hasty communication with the Society's Missionaries, Messrs. Robertson and Campbell, whose labours seem to have the blessing of Him for whom they are engaged. The Church is flourishing under their care and faithful ministry. I did not look for any difficulty on a road so familiar to me as this has been for many years, but in consequence of the rebuilding of an important bridge on the Annapolis River, I was compelled to cross a wide ferry in a small boat; and owing to a very violent wind, and a rapid tide, the boat shipped a sea, which made every person in her very uncomfortable. I passed the evening with the Society's very valuable Missionary at Annapolis, the Rev. Edwin Gilpin, and his assistant, Mr. Godfrey.

At an early hour on Thursday, the lsth. They attended me to a steamer, in which I embarked for St. John's, New Brunswick (60 miles). The weather was favourable, and we ought to have finished our voyage before sunset, (after a short detention at Digby, which enabled me to inquire for the widow of the Society's late Missionary there, Mrs. Viets) but having a very large ship in tow, which had just been launched near Annapolis, we did not land till midnight.

F riday, the l6th, was fully occupied by the Clergy and many excellent members of the Church at St. John's: a city rapidly increasing, with a population which already exceeds a number greater than that of the inhabitants of New York, when my father first visited that city. This comparative view has been suggested by the circumstance of the settlement at St. John's having been chiefly formed by loyalists from New York, many of whom were my father's parishioners in that fine city, and the more dear to me on that account. I had an opportunity for making arrangements to facilitate my subsequent work in this portion of New Brunswick.

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