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tliy excited, and on which move or less money has 

 been expended. And what is its condition ? It has 

 btien established for many years, and by this time it 

 ought to furnish some inducements to the farmer who 

 would locate here, nearly fifty miles from a post- 

 office or store, and half that distance from a good 

 mill. But what is the truth respecting it ? Not a man 

 here supports himself from his farm ; and I can see 

 no gain since I Avas here two years ago. Some of the 

 best men have left, and those that remain depend on 

 the money (some seven hundred dollars) furnished 

 by the State for the making of roads, to buy their 

 provisions with. The church which was organized 

 some time since was never worthy of the name of one ; 

 the few men who composed it, with some few excep- 

 tions, being anything but religious men. I was told 

 by one of the chief men here that one man now con- 

 stituted the entire " Congregational Church of Long 

 Lake." There are no meetings held on the Sabbath, 

 not even a Sabbath school. As I went from house to 

 house, I saw books scattered round belonging to the 

 Long Lake Library, marked, some of them, with the 

 names of the donors ; but they seemed to me thrown 

 away. The truth is, the people here, as a general 

 thing, would not give a farthing for any religious 

 privileges, indeed would rather be without them ; and 

 instead of this colony b'eing a centre from which shall 

 radiate an immense population, covering the whole of 

 this wild regign, it will drag on a miserable existence, 

 composed, two-thirds of it, by those who had rather 

 hunt than work. 1 do not mean to disparage this 

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