I suppose we are as cheerful, contented, and happy, as any little circle of friends in our favored country.

Dear brother Parsons! how would his affectionate heart have rejoiced to welcome such a company of fellow laborers to this land! But he is happier in union with the blessed above." On the 22d of June, 1824, Messrs.

Fisk and King set out for Damascus, where they expected to find peculiar facilities for Arabic studies.

Aleppo being still more advantageous for them, they proceeded to that city in July, with a caravan, notwithstanding the intense heat of midsummer.

On the 19th, they suffered much from exposure to the heated air, filled with sand and dust.