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Thou still [could?] find me on my birthday! How in [humane?]. Still struggling up hill. [Lurking?] with Americans eye upon the favors of Fortune. Like the stalled [waggon?]. [Unclear] yet imbedded in debts. Yet hulling against the [setting?] tide. But [unclear] days begin to dawn. My [lands?] are [lebring?] my strength [unclear]. My footholds [tending?] firmer ground. The tide in the affairs of snow, which taking in this flood had on to glorious fortune: seems already beginning to [hum?] [with?] my break, as if to bear me to the long [cleared?] [hut?]. How long have I struggled against the "shafts and [stings?] of [rot?], [Magerus?] Misfortune." how long [unclear] to [unclear] alone the [force?] and [concentration?] of [unclear]. to feel myself in [home?] and mind [independent?] and unshackled. I hope my [unclear] shall now be [unclear] fulfilled.[Now?] this I have [unclear] [unclear] I left my [nature?] shores. My [unclear] [hell?] [unclear] only small gains. This [land?] [unclear] wealth [unclear] that quickly, [both?] [unclear] and scattered [profusely?] on Mother Earth alluded me. [I'm?] [unclear] said it needed only courage and will and it was mine. I have come, and though exaggeration have filled the [uni?] reveal ear yet with moderate [expectations?]. I believe not yet in [unclear]. From this land of gold. [Make?] me [unclear]! For with the Helpings of [Unclear] I hope to greet this next year with every side of the Hill of [Buisinely?].

Thou [won't?] find me this year my friend!- with larger [experience?]- more [comprehensive?] [unclear] and with [unclear] insight in the character and ways of [snow?]. I have of old. [Sun?] thy [each?] [unclear] I have been steamed through the waters of the Atlantic have felt the sublimitive [awe?] the [unclear] of the ocean, have dwelt awhile on the [Unclear] of [Unclear], and seen the [manners?] and [unclear] of a [unclear] new and strange to me, have sailed on the broom of the [unclear], seen the wonders of the great deep, and the work of God as seen in the great waters. and have dwelled [awhile?] [unclear] the gold hunters of California. Many are the joy and [unclear] which in this travel of have [unclear] from the [unclear] and development of [Nature?]. Many are the new ideas I have acquired, the [marriage?] gained home [unclear] have been the discomfort and annoying of the [unclear]. I have been in contact with men of very [unclear]. From the low [unclear], only on, to the [afraid/friend?], high [minded?] and intelligent. From the immoral and deceitful, to the religious, the [unclear] and the honorable, of I have learned to be more [suspicious?] of many have been at the exchange of the delight of [unclear]