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but a want of the cheerful mood in which
it was written. I was truly sorry to hear of
such a change in Mr Lawrence and I hope
your forebodings may not be correct.

Let me know whether it is you intention
ever to revisit England and whether your
sudden departure has induced our schoolfellow
Jones to relinguish his plan of going out
as a missionary. I have lately seen some
unpromising accounts of the interior of
New Holland by the Surveyor Oxley stating
that it is all a marsh and totally unfit
for cultivation, that all the large rivers which
appeared to afford an excellent inland navi-
gation ended in shallow pools and
evaporated before they reached the sea.

A young man from from this place had just
returned from a voyage [indecipherable] he spent
some day very pleasantly there with a convict
he had formerly known and who was now
in flourishing circumstances.
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You say the Lampeterans seemed to regret
your departure. I am sure they did, and although
I sometimes disposed to envy them the
melancholy pleasure of parting upon the whole
their gradual departure seems less painful.

I thank you for your kind wishes for my
success at Cambridge, I think I told you I
should go there next Autumn, yet I am far
from considering it certain, perhaps I do
so now than before I am not as
[indecipherable] of success in a scramble with
so many so well prepared and industrious
I can scarcely hope to gain much however
I must do my best. I find I have
filled my paper without saying some
of the thousand things I have often wished
to say I want to communicate thoughts when
I cannot & when the opportunity comes they
all vanish. I have obeyed your request in

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but a want of the [indecipherable] mood in which
it was written. I was truly sorry to hear of
such a change in Mr Lawrence and I hope
your forebodings may not be correct.

Le me know whether it is you intention
ever to revisit England and whether your
sudden departure has induced our schoolfellow
Jones to relinguish his plan of going out
as a missionary. I have lately seen some
unpromising accounts of the interior of
New Holland by the Surveyor Oxley stating
that it is all a marsh and totally unfit
for cultivation, that all the large rivers which
appeared to afford an excellent inland navi-
gation ended in shallow pools and
evaporated before they reached the sea.

A young man from from this place had just
returned from a voyage [indecipherable] he spent
some day very pleasantly there with a convict
he had formerly known and who was now
in flourishing circumstances.
391
You say the Lampeterans seemed to regret
your departure. I am sure they did, and although
I sometimes disposed to envy themthe
melacholy pleasure of parting upon the whole
their gradual departure seems less painful.

I thank you for your kind wishes for my
success at Cambridge, I think I told you I
should go there next Autumn, yet I am far
from considering it certain, perhaps I do
so now than before I am not as
[indecipherable] of success in a scramble with
so many so well prerpared and industrious
I can scarcely hope to gain much however
I must do my best. I find I have
filled my paper without saying pme
of the thousand things I have often wished
to say I want to communicate thoughts when
I cannot & when the opportunity comes they
all vanish. I have obeyed your request in