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 LETTER III.

 LIFT UP THE HANDS THAT HANG
 DOWN AND STRENGTHEN THE
 FEEBLE KNEES.

u have not forgotten the state-


ment I gave of
done in one of
calities in this
who came here


what can and has been
the least encouraging lo-
country by a feeble man
with seemingly no chance


here-i


 for life; you can now understand how,
 with slowly returning health, under the
 recuperating influences of this delightful
 climate, aided by resolute, energetic, and
 practical labor, he. has changed the wil-
 4 derness into the fertile garden which I
 see before me from the windows where
 1 I now write. But you must be told of
 Florida as you would find it were you
the good and the bad-if you would gain a cor-


rect impression of this strangely beautiful country.
 I have told you of my window-view. Now step
out into the moonlight, as I have often done, from


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