Immediately on my arrival, I made my way into the very heart of the , & judge of my astonishmet, when, instead of finding myself surrounded by savages; more terrible than the copper race of the forest, with his tomahawk & scalping knife, I discernd that I was in the midst of an inteligent & enlightened people, as peaceable, quiet, sober & industrious, as those of any city I had ever visited.

I have had several interviews with the great prophet, and other big lions of this community, and will do them the justice to say, that I have never found more of the true gentlemen, among any people, entirely freed from that sophistry in deportment, which characterizes many of the fashionables of Civilized Society. The Mormon prophet may well be considered the one hundred & first wonder of the age, and the Caution too, if I may Judge by a few calls at his office, & frequnt exhibititons of himself in public,

The dignity, combined with ease, familiarity, and urbanity of manner, which characterizes his deportemet [deportment]; On the judgme[n]t Seat, as Mayor of the ; as commander of the ; as president of a numerous ; as head of a noble family; and as a general business calculator, is not surpassed: but this is not sufficient to occupy his mind; his eye appears to glance with the velocity of lightning to the utmost bounds of earth, and he compasses other worlds in his imaginations, or revelations, (true or false, judge ye,) never losing sight of the signs in the heavens, the commotion of Elements, the Contentions of Nations, [p. 2]