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us having arrived 4 days ago from California the amount of gold aboard is not known they keep it secret as they dare not let it be known but it is some millions of dollars they have ?? news from there over land? which reports everything favorable as where we left New York of course we are all of us most crazy. the boat to take this board of the the Lexicon who sails to ?? is waiting for us to finish I am perfectly happy and ?? and have only one desire which is to hear that you are all well to hear I have not been downhearted in the least I have gotten a thousand things to say but which I cannot for time in this letter I shall write ?? to in a long letter before I leave and will try to give you a better account but as I told you before I am crazy just now and how this is written ?? I don't know we are ahead of every vessel but one that left at the time we did and some that left 2 weeks before us I have not time to say another word.