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of 1841. I hope it may this
year again rise to that Average
but you full well know upon
how many contingencies that
wholly depends.

This much I will say in conclusion
that I have never sought to
give you pain, and if I have
done so without cause, am
heartily sorry for it. But to
scramble on without System, or
Regularity and by so doing
present to the World an appearance
of Sailing under false colours, is
what I never can endure.

Believe me my dear James
yr affectionate Br.
Edw. Macarthur