ABSTRACT
IN January 1841 our Missionary Presbytery n1et at Coco JVallc,in Manchester parish, near the southern extremity of the island. Our brother, Mr. Patterson, after leaving Montego Bay, had settled there, in a ,vide district previously unoccupied, and commenced operations of the highest character, founding a noble church and school, and several inlportant stations. His cllurch had received the nanle of New Broughton. The journey thither from our place ,vas long, nearly eighty n1iles the shortest way one could go, and much longer by the best way. But the value of our temperance, or rather total abstinence principles, had been proved before then on long journeys, and the old limit, of forty lniles a day or thereabouts, was no longer adhered to. I was unavoidably detained a day beyond my time in leaving hOlne, and resolved to take the shortest way over the mountains. It would require me to make out above sixty miles over rough roads the first day; but would enable Ine to join the brethren early on the second. An incident of the journey cannot be forgotten.
