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12 operatives, of the media of obtaining a competency, by the opulent. Sedulity in no avocation could participate in the reception of correspondent guerdon. – And the incessant incrassation of the tramontane population coerced the agriculturists to such constant ingeminations of arations of their granges, that an infecundity of soil had without evitation to take place. Not only was terrene sterility induced by incessant arations for the eduction of herbaceous and frumentaceous substances, but the spissitude of wights in those sections also impelled the proprietors of terra firma to deintegrate their granges by discinding them into such exiguous multangular and multilateral fragments as to make them entirely too angust for future occupants. Amature cogitation upon the accreting congeries of the discommodities in prospect in my natal land, brought me to the illation to effectuate a segregation of myself from the localities that witnessed the gambols of my juvenility, and to procure for me a domiciliation in the spacious occident.

The annunciation of this illation cast a delectation into the hearts, illumed risibility upon the phizes, of my enemies, and imparted a lugubrious phase to the physiognomics of all my cognations. Finally, the doloriferous moment when my discession was to take its inception occurred[.] My parents conquassating under inevitable senescence, my germans and other cognations in conjunction with a majority of my vicinal cotemporaries, congregated around me. I prolated my valediction. But Oh! the lachrymary effusions in the clonic and clamant ging!— by my parents, because in my demigration, they beheld their entire orbation – by the rest becausemy migration subjected them to the amission of an adjuvant neighbor.

Yours veritably,

LORENZO ALTISONANT.