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sider one of the highest gratifications of which our nature is 
capable,—the enjoyment of that personalknowledge and familiar 
intercourse, which this Meeting has afforded, with those whose 
kindred minds and congenial pursuits have been long familiar 
to us through the medium of their works ; the enjoyment of being 
thus brought into friendly contact and brotherly association, 
w r ith those whom we have long esteemed and loved and vene¬ 
rated from a distance ; the enjoyment of being thus enabled, 
though but for a short, yet a most delightful week, to hold 
sweet counsel and communion together in these our palaces of 
peace. Gentlemen, it is now my painful duty to announce, that 
the moment of separation is arrived ; it is my more grateful task 
to remind you, that we are to re-assemble at Cambridge in the 
latter part of the month of June next year*” 
