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this happens with the approbation of our 

 Gracious Sovereign. If we were assured 

 that it was his will, we should submit with 

 dutiful resignation/' 



The clergy also complained to me that, 

 after having resided in this wilderness, and 

 fulfilled the duties of their calling with all 

 possible care and diligence, they are never 

 in the way of promotion, like those em- 

 ployed in schools, or any other station, 

 where they are more at hand to solicit pre- 

 ferment. Indeed it seems very just, that, 

 after having served here for twenty years, 

 they should obtain some small preferment 

 in a more cultivated country, where their 

 children might be properly educated, and 

 enjoy the advantages of civilized society. 



A schoolmaster at this time resident 

 here, who had exerted himself in the most 

 exemplary manner, so as to do as much in 

 two years as his predecessor had done in 

 ten, with respect to teaching Swedish to 

 the children of the Laplanders, a task 

 harder than that of the plough, had no 



