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bring back with him from Mexico a number of young 



native Indians, in order to have them educated in the 

 United States, and subsequently diffuse the benefits 

 of instruction among the people of their own race. 

 This benevolent object, however, was not accom- 

 plished: for in the ordering of Providence he did 

 not live to return. 



From New Haven Mr. Maclure proceeded to New 

 York, and embarked for Mexico. Time and distance, 

 however, could not estrange him from that solicitude 

 which he had long cherished for the advancement of 

 education in his adopted country : and from his re- 

 mote residence he kept a constant correspondence 

 with his friends in the United States, among whom 

 was the author of this memoir. 



Mr. Say* died in 1S34, at New Harmony; and 

 Mr. Maclure was thus deprived of one of his oldest 

 and firmest friends. The loss seemed for a time to 



' Ifr. Say was one of the founders of the Academy; and among tlie 

 last acls of his life, he provided for the further utility of the institution 

 questing that it should become the depository of his hooks and col- 

 lections. This verbal bequest was happily confided to one who- (I 

 and pursuits were congenial to his own: and the Academy is indebted to 

 Mr. and Mrs. Say for some of its most valuable acquisitions. 



An interesting and eloquent Memoir of Mr. Say, was written by Dr. 

 Benjamin Hornor Coates, and published under the auspices of the Acade- 

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