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70 Juvenile Letters.

friends! Yet they were patient under their fufferings; endured hardfhips with fortitude; and fubmitted to the will of Providence. 

But I fuppofe you have read it all. I therefore conclude, by fubfcribing,
 
Dear Brother, 
Your affectionate fifter,
ABIGAIL CARVER.
Mafter John Carver.

LETTER XXVI.

Anfwer to the foregoing.

Exeter.

DEAR SISTER,

I THANK you for your kind letter, which came to hand yefterday, It was the more acceptable, as it related to the firft fettlement of this country; the hiftory of which is always interefting. 
It cannot be expected, that, at the academy, we fhould read much hiftory; our time being chiefly employed in claffical ftudies. But what 
little

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little we do read, our preceptor advifes us to note down, or repeat to fome friend, in the fame manner as our papa recommended to you. 

Your letter reminded me of what I read in Morfe's Gazetteer, "that the ROCK, in Plymouth. on which our forefathers first landed, was conveyed, in 1774, from the fhore "to a fquare in the centre of the town. The "fentimental traveller will not fail to view "it; and if he is paffing to Cape Cod, he "will paufe a moment at Clampudding Pond, "about feven miles from the town, where the "people, in ancient days, when travelling from "the Cape to attend the courts at Plymouth, "ufed to fit and regale themfelves with the "clams and pudding which they brought with "them."

I am glad you are likely to be indulged with the ufe of a focial library. I underftand that the cuftom of eftablifhing libraries is becoming general all over New-England. 

Dr. Belknap, in his Hiftory of New-Hampfhire, fays, "Another fource of improvement, "which I beg leave to recommend, is the establishment

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