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to tender impressions, I could not help inditing the effusions of a 

 heart warmly interested in your welfare and happiness. I well 

 knew how you would feel our separation. Those who remain on the 

 spot alway suffer more than those who take their departure; whose 

 attention is more or less engaged with a variety of new objects, as 

 Avas our case in the journey to Surat. I therefore feel much for 

 you, placed among such detestable characters, and compelled to 

 witness distresses you cannot relieve ; but the downy wings, and 

 (allow me to say) the balmy comforts of religion, united to the 

 active duties of a commercial career, to commence with the open- 

 ing of the fair season, will I trust alleviate the miseries which now 

 surround you. You must, my friend, look at the magnifying end 

 of the telescope, the brilliant medium of the glass called Claud 

 Lorraine : behold the pleasing scenes that await you a few years 

 hence in England. Call in the pleasures of imagination; remove 

 the veil which obscures the bright prospect and enviable pleasures 

 we have so lately talked of enjoying together in our native isle ; 

 which ere long will I hope be realized. The lovely rose is often 

 encompassed by thorns; and seldom does the cup of humanity 

 contain an unmingled potion. You must therefore consider your 

 situation for two or three years to come, as a road, which, although 

 a little rough and dreary, will ultimately lead you to all that is 

 most desirable in this sublunary vale. 



" An elegant sufficiency, content, 

 Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books. 

 Ease and alternate labour, useful life, 

 Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven." 



