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sian, who has witnessed and survived the ravages of successive generations, the companions of his youth, and of his maturity, and now means his own solitary and desolate condition, and hals their spirits in every passing cloud? Whatever may be the cause, as I look at it, I feel my sod drawn forward, as by the cords of gentiest sympathy, and involuntarily open my lips to cfer consolation to the drooping pile.

Where, my S., is the busy, bustling crezd which landed here two hundred years ago I.... Where is Smith, that pink of gallantry, that fewer of chivalry?....I fancy that I can see their inst slow and cautious approach to the shore; ther keen and vigilant eyes, piercing the forest in eve rv direction, to detect the lurking Indian, with lis tomahawk, bow and arrow. Good Heavens What an enterprize! How full of the most fearfal periis....and yet how entirely profitless to the daring men who personally undertook and Chieved it!! Through what a series of the most spirit chilling hardships, had they to toil? How often did they cast their eyes to England in vain, and with what delusive hopes, day after day, did the little, famished crew strain their sight to catch the white sail of comfort and relief! Bus day after day, the sun sat, and darkness covered the earth; but no sail of comfort or relief came. How often in the pangs of hunger, sickness, soiitude and disconsolation, did they think of L don: her shops, her markets groaning under the weight of plenty, her streets swarming with gilded coaches, bustling hacks, with crouds of lords dukes and commons, with healthy, busy, contenI

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