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appears to be rough somewhat steeply rising ground. (1 explained to
him that a good many of these trees, but I certainly think that one-tenth
of them wod. probably be sufficient, wod. be retained by way of orna-
ment.) Ultimately he proposes to take the trees by means of a shoot
from high up among the rocks, where they can be of no earthly value to
any body else. It wod. be of great importance to the town to get
lumber on this spot at 50 dollars per 1,000. They were paying $90 for
it here last winter and $80 now I am inzormed, and have had to pay
$100 at Fort Hope.

Capt. Whannell desires me to mention to you that he is exceed-
ingly anxious to be removed. I fancy he means by that promoted. He
say that he wrote to Col. Moody the letter of resignation wch he
mentioned to him; I write a few words to the Coll. at Queenboro on
the point. He also (Capt. WI.) says that he wrote to Your Excellency
through Coll. Moody submitting that the fine of $25 inflicted by Perrier®?
ought to be remitted by the Crown: wch appears certainly proper, as it
never ought to have been inflicted. Perrier, having received it, is bound
to a/c for it to the treasury: but the treasury may at once I wod. submit,
order it to be repaid to Captn. W. Perrier was willing when I was last
here to repay it; but I pointed out that, having been received by him for
the Crown, he must pay it to the Crown officers, who might deal with
it as was thought just. He repaid the costs while I was here. W. says
that he has received no answer to his application to Your Excellency.

We are to have a sermon to-morrow from one of the Wesleyan
ministers, who is, I believe, going higher up the river also. I don’t
know where he lodges and he does not seem to care, but though quite a
boy in looks everybody seems to think he gives a very good sermon.
He preaches at Fort Yale in the morning, Emory Bar in the middle of
the day, and Fort Yale in the evening; paddling himself, as Saint
Peter used to do.%?

The snow is by no means clear at Lytton; according to all reports,
there is still too much for any surveying to be done. I wish that I
had had sufficient confidence, in the Irish sense, to ask you to appoint
Mr. Nicol and myself commissioners to settle land disputes up here.
Both at Fort Hope and at Fort Yale there are matters, but here
especially, wch I submit really ought to be settled one way or the
other: and any settlement almost is better than none at all. Hicks has
left things in a hopeless state up here. A few of his doings: He has

(82) The fine for the ‘‘ contempt of Court,’’ one of the incidents that led up to the ‘‘ Ned
McGowan Wur.’’ See the details in Judge Begbie’s letter of February 8, 1859, ante, p. 36.

(83) The Rey. Ebenezer Robson, later the Rev. Dr. Robson. The first Methodist ministers
in British Columbia were himself, the Rev. E. White, the Rey. Arthur Browning, and the Rey.
Dr. Evans. They arrived in Victoria in February, 1859.