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performing this agreeable task.. I have, however, the satisfaction of transmitting along with the present as Essay on this part of the Country and its inhabitants, contained on four Sheets. I am aware that you will find it very deficient and unsatisfactory; but it is the best that my circumscribed information and ability can aim at for the present. Had I time for another trial, I might perhaps be more diffuse upon the Items of Customs and Manners, both which are susceptible of illustration as well as enlargement. As it is, you are at liberty to lop and choose as you please. I have no further view, than perhaps to have been fortunate enough to hit upon something hitherto untouched, in your former Communications from Bear Lake, and to endeavour to convince you, that I am always ready to contribute all in my power to the laudable object you have in contemplation. I am sorry to learn that a few

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