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PREFACE.
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man probability, the die is cast; and as the prejudices of those persons, who alone can extricate me from misery, are not likely to be removed by any professions of amendment I can make, my only hopes of happiness are centred in a better world, where we are instructed that there is much joy over one single repentant sinner.
James Hardy Vaux.
Newcastle, New South Wales,
17th September, 1815.
