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[1348]

Being [informed?] that a short distance [indecipherable]
the Cedar party there was a good sized [indecipherable]
we proceeded with great diffi -
culty 15 or 20 miles farther than any [boat?]
had gone before but without success - time did
not permit me to go up the North [West?]
arm of the River which from a survey
made in Capt Almond's time
is the most considerable & desirable as [well?]
from its extent as from its depth

Upon the whole the settlement appears
one of the most interesting (and were it [not?]
for the very dangerous bar across the har-
bour mouth) one of the most [desirable?]
on our coast the land in many places
being good to the edge of the sea [shore?]
& [improving?] as you proceed higher
into the country.

During my stay I performed
divine service thrice every Sabbath
& was not a little gratified with the
regular attendances & good behaviour
of the Prisoners & others I married three
couples, Baptised six Children, [Burried?]

[MS 1349]

five persons from the hospital and dis-
tributed the books your Excellency was
kind enough to furnish me with which
generally received with [indecipherable]

Considering the class of [persons?]
sent thither, together with the [indecipherable]
difficulties of forming a new Settlement
much has been done in a civil point
of view. The town is considerable &
upon the whole well found & regulated
[but?] to see from fourteen to fifteen hundred
of our fellow creatures who lay claim
to the character of christians, cast
upon a distant part of the [coast?]
without the public means of religious
instruction without a parson of
serious habits or piety to bury their
dead baptize their children or to
keep up even the forms of devotion, is at
once an apalling & [distressing?] sight to the serious
& philanthropic [mind?]