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funds, measures, and managenient, can be pro- 

 fitable employments to the people who live at a 

 distance from wealthy cities, and the seat of 

 government. The only profitable business, is 

 to pursue their own profession and calling. Ta 

 this pursuit their views become directed ; and 

 here, their activity and enterprise become re- 

 markable. No difficulty or hardship seem to 

 discourage them ; And the perseverance of a 

 few years generally serves to overcome the ob- 

 stacles, that lay in their way at first. It is only 

 those who are of this enterprising spirit, who 

 venture to try their fortunes in the woods ; and 

 in a few years, it generally raises them into easy 

 and comfortable circumstances. To the most 

 essential and necessary duties of man, heaven 

 has annexed immediate and important blessings. 

 The people thus active, laborious, and perpetu- 

 ally in hard exertions, are destitute of many of 

 the conveniencies of liie ; and of what, in every 

 populous city, would be esteemed its necessa- 

 ries. Can their health and spirits remain unim- 

 paired, amidst this scene of hard living, and 

 hard labor ? Will they not waste aM-ay thus la- 

 boring in the woods, without good living, able 

 physicians, and the advantages of medicine ? So 

 far from it, that no people have so few diseases, 

 multiply so fast, or suffer so little from sickness. 

 Temperance and labor do more for them, than 

 art and medicine can do for others. The dis- 

 orders which wear away the inhabitants of weal- 

 thy cities, are almost unknown in the woods. 

 Very few die, but under the unavoidable decays 

 of nature ; and the deaths are to the births, in 

 no higher a proportion than I to 4, 8. Unac= 



