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 in peace, and where in riper age I have known what tranquillity is by happy experience. Long may my beloved mother, and dear brothers and sisters, enjoy the blessing of my heavenly Father, and be strangers to affliction and woe.

May 8.— My dear Mr N. has been ill this week past with the dysentery; so ill, that he has kept his bed the greater part of the time. Should he fall a victim to this painful disease, and leave me alone in a strange land! But I will not distrust the care of my heavenly Father. I know he will never leave nor forsake me, though a widowed stranger in a strange country.

Four years to-day since my father’s death. You my dear mother, have probably thought of it, and the recollection is painful. Dear cousin C. has probably before this time entered the world of spirits; and perhaps more of my dear Haverhill friends.— We find that we have taken passage in an old leaky vessel, which, perhaps, will not stand the force of the wind and waves, until we get to Calcutta. But if God has any thing for us to do in heathen Asia, we shall get there and accomplish it. Why then do we fear? It is God

And is not this God our God? May 10— Mr Newell's health is much improved. “ I will bless the Lord, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications.”

June 12.— Rejoice with us, my dear, dear mother in the goodness of our covenant God. After seeing nothing but sky and water for one hundred and fourteen days, we this morning heard the joyful exclamation of "land, land!" It is the coast of Orissa about twenty miles from us. Should the wind be favourable, we shall not lose sight of land again