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you are a little uppish and decline to live in the 

 basement of a tree-house 300 feet high, you may 

 choose a knoll " with a view," in the abruptly roll- 

 ing forest lands from which you may cut 50,000 

 feet of merchantable " Oregon Pine " per acre. 

 Or you may locate by the river bank and till the 

 rich alluvial bottomland; and provided you have 

 a safe retreat above the melted snow which comes 

 down in the spring, you may have without charge 

 a glorious water-view perhaps ten to twenty miles 

 in breadth. 



Then there is the " Hog-wallow'* land which 

 costs less than the river bottoms, upon which you 

 can spend from twenty to twenty-five dollars in 

 levelling so that it can be flooded for the cultiva- 

 tion of rice which is becoming common in the in- 

 land valleys of the State. 



And this reminds me of the Legend of Hog- 

 wallowland. Once in prehistoric times there was 

 a genus of swine with noses so long that they 

 could stand on one side of a river provided it 

 was not too wide and root up the sweet flag 

 in the soft marsh on the other side. In size they 

 were between a rhinoceros and an elephant; and 

 belonged to the one-toed pachyderms, being cov- 

 ered with bristles about the length and size of a 



