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college students, & so utterly
useless in other respects
as to feel, if indeed my memory
then extended beyond the
period of childhood, that I did
not perform service
enough to pay for the salt
with which my rations
were seasoned. It is
impossible, recollect, for
a [man?] to change his habits
in a day & that the difficulty
increases with age.
In no respect could I be
of the least benefit nor
any other than a heavy
incumbrance, except perhaps
by being sent to Europe as
a converted Indian chief
& inhibited there as such. The
indistinctness of my articulation
would make my English pass
for [?], & the
