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72   Juvenile Letters. 

"tablifhment of focial libraries. This is the 
"eafieft, the cheapeft, and most effectual mode
"of diffufing knowledge among the people.
"For the fum of fix or eight dollars at once, 
"and a fmall annual payment befides, a man
"may be fupplied with the means of literary
"improvement, during his life; and his children may inherit the bleffing."

I want to gain time to read the "Moral and Religious Repofitory." Our preceptor fays it is a good book. I fuppofe it is in your library. If fo, I may have an opportunity of reading it, at the next vacation.

Tell fifter Ann to remember her fpelling leffons, every day, in the "Child's Companion." I have a prefent for her, laid by, againft my return at the vacation. 

Give my duty to my parents, and love to all my brothers and fifters. 
I am, dear fifter, 

Yours, affectionately, 

JOHN CARVER.
Mifs Abigail Carver.
LETTER
 

Juvenile Letters.   73

Letter XXVII.

From Mafter Peter Vandike to Mafter Henry Wilmot.
Albany, Sept. 10th, 1802

DEAR HARRY, 

We arrived at this city on Monday laft; after having had a profperous voyage up Hudfon's river. 

I had but a very imperfect idea of this noble ftream before. I affure you my opinion of Capt. Henry Hudfon, the difcoverer, is much raifed. He is fuppofed to have had the courage and perfeverance to navigate it near to the fpot where this flourifhing city ftands. 

This, you may think, required no great fhare of courage. But when you confider the great diftance from the ocean, the multitude of favages on the fhores, the hideous mountains which hang over its banks, and the uncertainty of its navigation, you will wonder his heart did not fail him. 

From New-York to a great diftance up the
G river.
                     

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