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making way, I can, thank God, speak more satisfactorily 

 than when we last met, though still nothing to boast of." 



Again in the same year he writes 



" You recollect how much and how hard I had to 

 work, when you were here that was nothing to what I 

 have to do now, as vigilance and labour are incessantly 

 demanded, not only to gain more ' reputation,' but to re- 

 tain that which I have already with vast toil acquired." 



In the following year, after he had removed to New 

 York, and was there a candidate for professional business, 

 he writes to the same friend 



" The prospects of our college are fair enough at pre- 

 sent, but what will be the event, cannot be told until the 

 time of trial arrives. For my own part, I am not a little 

 sick of the life such a business occasions, and think you 

 far better off, in a situation, where you can acquire a 

 subsistence and respect, without the incessant worry and 

 vexation attendant on a life of professional ambition. 

 For my own part, I shall lay myself as much out for the 

 profession us I can, though I fear, not the best subject 

 for improvement in that way. My situation is such, that 

 I am obliged to rely, in a very great degree, on my pen, 

 and that, you will pay, produces habits very little com- 

 patible with the introduction of one's self into practice, 

 where there are so many professed bowers, scrapers, and 

 flatterers." 



In the ensuing winter he was seized with the disease 

 of the lungs of which he finally died, and was compelled 



