9th.  Maternal Association meets at my house, which, Mrs. S. reports, is well attended.  In the evening, Mr. H., Mr. J., Miss McF., and Miss S.

Floating ice in the straits, and no crossing.

11th.  Snowing—­blustering.  Expecting the mail soon, I prepared my letters, and, being Saturday, sent them to the post-office, lest the mail should arrive and depart on Sunday.

13th, Deep snow drifts, stormy—­cold.  Very difficult, in consequence of the drifts, to reach the teacher’s concert, in the evening, which met at the Court House.  Meeting between Mr. D. and Mr. Ferry at my house, to try the effects of conciliation.

14th.  High wind died away last night:  the sun rose, this morning, clear and pleasant, but the air still cold.  Ice completely fills the channel between Boisblanc and the main harbor; the outer channel is still open.

Mrs. Kingsbury passed the day with us.  The church session on examination accepts her, and Mr. D. Stuart, the gentleman named in Irving’s Astoria.

15th.  The express from Detroit arrives, having crossed from the main to Boisblanc on the ice, and from thence in a boat.  By this mail we have a week’s later dates than were brought by the “Warren.”  No political intelligence of importance.  I received a number of printed sheets of the appendix to the narrative of my tour to Itasca Lake.  Heard also from LeConte, the engraver, at New York.

16th.  Took Mr. D. in my cariole to Mr. Ferry’s, to further the object of a reconciliation of the matters in difference between them.  It commenced raining, soon after we got there, and continued steadily all evening.  Got a complete wetting in coming home, and in driving to the fort Mrs. Kingsbury, whom I found there.

17th.  Yesterday’s fain has much diminished the quantity of snow; bare ground is to be seen in some spots.  Atmosphere murky, and surcharged with moisture, rendering it disagreeable to be out of doors.

The soldiery of the garrison invite Mr. F. to hold a meeting in the garrison every Sabbath afternoon, showing an awakened moral sense among them.

18th.  Depression of the atmospheric temperature.  Frost renders the walking slippery, and the snow crusted and hard.  This condition of things, in the forest, is fatal to wild hoofed animals, which at every step are subject to break through, and cut their ankles.  In this way the Indians successfully pursue and take the moose and reindeer of our region.

19th.  Mr. David S. and Mrs. K. are admitted to the communion, on a profession of faith, and Mr. Seymour, Miss Owen, and Miss Leverett, by letter.  The Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Barber were also, for the first time, present.

Snow fell upon the previous glare surface, and, being attended with wind, rendered the day very blustering and boisterous.  The wind being from the west, was very strong—­so strong as to blow some persons down.  The temperature at the same time was quite cold.