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Soho Square
March 30. 1797.
My dear Sir
I congratulate you on the state in which you found your Colony & I felt infinite satisfaction in hearing your account of it, I know it will prove an incentive to you to press forward the improvements, the Climate & Soil are in my own opinion superior to most which have yet been settled by Europeans, I have always maintaind that assertion grounded on my own experiences, but have been uniformly contradicted, except by Govr. Philips, till your last favors have taken away all doubts from the minds of those who have been permitted to peruse them.
You have a prospect before you of no small interest to the feeling mind a colony just emerging from the miseries to which new colonists are uniformly subjected, to your abilities it is left to model the rising state into a happy Nation & I have no doubt you will effect your purpose. Here matters are different, we have of late seen too many symptoms of declining prosperity not to feel an anxious wish for better times I keep up my spirits & those of my Family as well as I am able, but in truth my dear Sir could it be done by Fortunatus's wishing cup, I have no doubt that I should this day remove myself & Family to your quarters & ask for a grant of Lands on the banks of the Hawkesbury, my next I hope will state better hopes.
The recovery of your Cattle, for I consider them to be recovered tho they are not caught, is a matter of no inconsiderable importance to you. I see the future prospect of Empires & Dominions which now