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Law not proper in itself, or not suited to your Circumstances, either from our not seeing the whole Extent of its Operation, or any other Circumstance should be imposed it will be immediately repealed. But with all the Care & Attention to your Interest & Happiness that can be taken, You have many Difficulties to struggle with -- the subduing a new Country, notwithstanding its natural Ad- vantages; is alone an arduous Task: -- a Task however that Pa- tience & Perseverance will Surmount, & these Virtues so necessary in every Situation, but peculiarly so in yours you must resolve to ex- ercise - neither is the reducing a Country from a State of Nature to a State of Civilization so irksome as it may appear from a slight or superficial View - Even very sensible Measures attend it; -- the gradual Progress of Improvement fills the Mind with delectable Ideas -- Vast Forests converted into arable Fields, ' Cities rising in Places which were lately the Habitation of wild Beasts give a Pleasure something like that attendant on Creation, if we can form an Idea of it - the Imagination is ravished, and a Taste com- municated of even the "Joy of God to see a happy World" -- The Advantages however are not merely imaginary - situated as you are in the most temperate Climate; fovaoud with the most fer- tile Soil; surrounded by the noblest & most beautiful Rivers, every Portion of Labour will meet its due Reward: But you have upon your Frontiers Numbers of Savage and, too often, hostile Nations - against them it is necessary that you should be guarded, & the Measures that may be thought proper for that End, tho' they may a little interrupt