. Cheshire, its traditions and history, including a record of the rise and progress of freemasonry in this ancient province . episcopal visitation, when the hand of death arrested him in his careerof usefulness. On the 3rd of April 1826, at Trichinopoh, he was found drownedin a bath, owing, it was supposed, to the sudden transition to cold water aftergreat in confirming some native Christians. A deep and painfulsensation was produced by his unexpected decease, both in India and at home,and in him the Christian civihsation of the East seemed to have lost its mostzealous, most active,
. Cheshire, its traditions and history, including a record of the rise and progress of freemasonry in this ancient province . episcopal visitation, when the hand of death arrested him in his careerof usefulness. On the 3rd of April 1826, at Trichinopoh, he was found drownedin a bath, owing, it was supposed, to the sudden transition to cold water aftergreat in confirming some native Christians. A deep and painfulsensation was produced by his unexpected decease, both in India and at home,and in him the Christian civihsation of the East seemed to have lost its mostzealous, most active, and most enhghtened friend. Sir George Back, a distinguished voyager and explorer in the Arcticregions, was born at Holly Vale, Stockport, in 1706. He entered the Navyat an early age, and accompanied Sir John Frankhn on his Arctic voyages in1818-19-23. In 1833 he undertook an overland journey in search of CaptainRoss. On this occasion he descended Back River till he reached the PolarSea, and then traced the coasts as far as Bathurst Inlet. The result ofthe journey was the publication of two volumes, respecting which the. ^MBHBIi J IP^fertt^i^^BBB^^ ^^^BBBL 1 B 1 1 ii. Jflfl CHESHIRE : ITS TRADITIONS AND HISTORY 253 Athenceum of the day says : Of all the voyages of discovery entered uponwithin our recollection, none engaged public attention so thoroughly as theexpedition, the fruits of which are before us. In 1831 he was made captain,and in 1836 examined the coasts between Cape Turnagain and Regent 1838 he received the honour of knighthood, and was presented with theGeographical Societys medal. Robert Brook Aspland, , was the son of the Rev. Robert Aspland,a Unitarian minister at Newport, , where he was born 19th January being educated at a private school at Blackheath, he proceeded to theGlasgow University, where he took his degree in 1822, and afterwards studiedtheology at the Manchester College, York. His first call was to a congregationin Crooks L
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