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you will, I trust, place a proper estimate on the grateful feelings of your fellow countrymen. The beginning, the progress and the final completion of the grand scheme, is full of evidence that the efforts of all the powers of a man of more than ordinary genius were put in action. The present generation have already experienced the great benefits of your incomparable system. The old and the young find no difficulty in learning to read and write in their native language and to correspond with their distant friends with the same facility as the whites do. Types have been made and a printing press established in this nation. The Scriptures have been translated and printed in Cherokee; and whilst posterity continues to be benefited by the discovery, your name will exist in grateful remembrance. It will also serve as an index for other aboriginal tribes, or nations, similarly to advance in unclear and respectability: in short, the great good designed by the author of human existence in directing your genius in this happy discovery, cannot be fully estimated, it is incalculable. Wishing you health and happiness. I am your Friend John Ross