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days. Your friends there are all very well + Sally appears
to be spending her time very pleasantly. It is yet incertain wheth
-er your Father goes back into the country.

The [accurences?] of this neighborhood, since you left, are generally
uninteresting. Some events however have transpired worthy of
recital; Among which I would mention the death of Mr March
whose funeral solemnities will be attended this afternoon and like-
-wise the death of Captn Ephraim Toppan after a short but violent
fever. - [?] Toppan again discovers some marks of derangement
-his friends, I belive, are considerably apprehensive that
he will again be diverted of his reason. It is to he hope [?]
even that their fearful anticipations will not be realised,
that the present unfavorable indications will be of but short
continuance. How much, my dear friend, are we indebted
to God for his preserving as well as his bestowing goodness! Yet how
unmindful are we of the kind care he is [constantly?] taking of us. We
seem to forget that it is "in him we live, + move, and [harm?] our
being." Why is it that we so little regard the hand that confers upon
us so many favors? How strange is it that we can so soon
forget the chastising blows dealt by the kind hand of our Heavenly
Father. Why is it so? Is it not because we wish to be ignorant
of ourselves - - of our immortal interests? We are afraid of a
close self-examination, because such an investigation exposes
our follies + our crimes. We choose not to realise our [?],
because the blackest ingratitude stares us in the face. We have
every thing to make us ashamed of ourselves therefore we
choose "darkness rather than light." ---With regard to your family
I must tell you they are all much as when you left. Your

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