arch, still retaining that pristine form that anciently fitted the place I occupied, but the centre is tumbled down; I can be nothing until I am replaced, either in the former circle, or in some stronger one.  I see one on a smaller scale, and at a considerable distance, but it is within my power to reach it:  and since I have ceased to consider myself as a member of the ancient state now convulsed, I willingly descend into an inferior one.  I will revert into a state approaching nearer to that of nature, unencumbered either with voluminous laws, or contradictory codes, often galling the very necks of those whom they protect; and at the same time sufficiently remote from the brutality of unconnected savage nature.  Do you, my friend, perceive the path I have found out? it is that which leads to the tenants of the great------village of------, where, far removed from the accursed neighbourhood of Europeans, its inhabitants live with more ease, decency, and peace, than you imagine:  where, though governed by no laws, yet find, in uncontaminated simple manners all that laws can afford.  Their system is sufficiently complete to answer all the primary wants of man, and to constitute him a social being, such as he ought to be in the great forest of nature.  There it is that I have resolved at any rate to transport myself and family:  an eccentric thought, you may say, thus to cut asunder all former connections, and to form new ones with a people whom nature has stamped with such different characteristics!  But as the happiness of my family is the only object of my wishes, I care very little where we be, or where we go, provided that we are safe, and all united together.  Our new calamities being shared equally by all, will become lighter; our mutual affection for each other, will in this great transmutation become the strongest link of our new society, will afford us every joy we can receive on a foreign soil, and preserve us in unity, as the gravity and coherency of matter prevents the world from dissolution.  Blame me not, it would be cruel in you, it would beside be entirely useless; for when you receive this we shall be on the wing.  When we think all hopes are gone, must we, like poor pusillanimous wretches, despair and die?  No; I perceive before me a few resources, though through many dangers, which I will explain to you hereafter.  It is not, believe me, a disappointed ambition which leads me to take this step, it is the bitterness of my situation, it is the impossibility of knowing what better measure to adopt:  my education fitted me for nothing more than the most simple occupations of life; I am but a feller of trees, a cultivator of land, the most honourable title an American can have.  I have no exploits, no discoveries, no inventions to boast of; I have cleared about 370 acres of land, some for the plough, some for the scythe; and this has occupied many years of my life.  I have never possessed, or wish to possess anything more than what could be earned or produced by the united industry