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ence for his new location over the bleak climate he 

 had left. I saw but one desirous of selling and re- 



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moving, and but one house having on it a handbill 

 as being in market. Most of these farms were just 

 carved out of the woods, showing piles of roots that 

 had been grubbed up. They were, of course, rough 

 looking, like all new clearings in a new country ; 

 but the hand of industry was rapidly taming their 

 wildness, and bringing them into prime condition. 

 The general testimony was, that one day s labor on 

 this soil would accomplish twice as much work as 

 if expended on the heavy or strong soil from which 

 they had migrated. 



Such was the condition of the farms bought 

 within six months or a year. Those which had been 

 taken up by the first settlers, those of two and a- 

 half years ago, presented a very different appear 

 ance. The genial and tractable soil had enabled 

 their owners to work a great transformation even in 

 that brief period. From most of these the stumps 

 had wholly disappeared. Great fields of grain were 

 whitening to the harvest ; many acres of peach and 

 apple orchards were to be seen, the former promis 

 ing to yield a crop the coming season ; gardens were 

 full of fine vegetables ; the front upon the road had 

 been trimmed up and seeded to grass, while shrub 

 bery and flowers were visible on many of the lawns. 

 Of the thirty-acre farm of Mr. William O. H. 

 Guynneth, a brief notice may serve as an illustration. 

 This gentleman is from Boston, and was among the 

 earliest of the settlers. He bought thirty acres, 

 then utterly wild, now completely tamed. His 



