This Inconvenience feems the mod difficult to pro-
vide



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vid« agaitift, and, if not provided ag^inft, it will
b)C the rnoft likely to pbftrud any Defign of this
Nature. So true ic is, that where Ignorance or ill
Manncr$ once take place in a Seminary, they arie
fure to be handed down ia a Succefllon of illiterate
or worthlefs Men,

Bat this Apprehenfion, which feems (o well
grounded, that a Collie in any Part of Jmerica^
would either he unprovided, or be worfe provided
diari their Churches are, hath no Place in Bermuda §
there being at this Time ieveral Gentlemen, in all
Refpetfts very well qualified, and in PoITelfioa of
good Preferments, and fair Profpeds at home, who
having ferioufly confidered the great Benefit thac
niay arife to the Church and to Mankind from fuch
Ztn Undertaking, are ready to engage in it, and to
dedicate the Remainder of their Lives to the in-
truding the youth of America^ and profccuting
their own Studies upon a very moderate Subfiftence
in a Retirement, fo fweet and io fecure, and every
way rp well fitted for a Place of Education and
Study, as Bermuda.
Thijs much the Writer hereof thought himfelf
obliged to fay of his Affociatcs : For himfelf, he
can only fay, that as he values no Preferment upon
Earth, fo much as that of being employed in
the Execution of this Defign; fo he hopes to
make up for other Defedh, by the Sincerity of his
Endeavours.
