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in which other cares are made to occupy attention, or into more 
distant parts of our island or the world, beyond the reach of 
that once intimate conversation from which at once both pleasure 
and instruction flowed. 
Absent or dead— still let a friend be dear ; 
A sigh the absent claims — the dead a tear. 
hut in any case it becomes the duty, as it is the gratification of 
the author, to record the names of those from whom many of his 
facts have been obtained. 
JONATHAN COUCH. 
