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have gone there than to any part of the world. 
They are the most interesting, contented, moral, 
and happy people that can be conceived. 
" Their delight at our arrival was beyond 
everything. The comfort, peace, strict morality, 
industry, and excessive cleanliness and neatness 
that was apparent about everything around them, 
was really such as I was not prepared to witness. 
Their learning and attainments in general edu- 
cation and information really astonishing ; all 
dressed in English style ; the men a fine race, 
and the women and children very pretty, and 
their manner of a superior order, ever smiling 
and joyous. But one mind and one wish seems 
to actuate them all. Crime appears to be un- 
known, and if there is really true happiness on 
earth, it surely is theirs. 
" The island is romantic and beautiful ; the 
soil of the richest description, yielding almost 
every tropical fruit and vegetable : in short, it 
is a little paradise. 1 examined their laws, 
added a few to them, assembled them all in 
the church, and addressed them, saying how 
gratified I was to find them in the happy state 
they were, advising them to follow in the steps 
of virtue and rectitude they had hitherto done, 
and they would never want the sympathies of 
their countrymen (t. e. English), who were most 
interested about them. It was really affecting 
to see these primitive and excellent people, both 
old and young, 140 in the whole, looking up to 
me, and almost devouring all I said, with eager 
attention, and with scarcely a dry eye amongst 
them. And, ' albeit unused to the melting 
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