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Fresh Pond on the banks of the Hoogly ; gladdens 

 the sultry savannahs of the lazy South, and makes 

 life tolerable in the bungalow of an Indian jungle. 

 The lakes of iNew England thus awake to life by the 

 rivers of the East, and the antipodes of the earth 

 come in contact at this meeting of the waters. The 

 white canvas- of his ships is seen in every nook of 

 the ocean. Scarcely has the slightest information 

 come of some unknown and obscure corner of the 

 sea, when captains are consulting their charts, and 

 cargoes are taken in for speculation.&quot; An idea suc 

 cessfully inaugurated here, he reproduces wherever 

 civilization is established. He covers the West 

 India Islands with a net-work of railroads, astonishes 

 England with street conveniences of the same de- 



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scription, raises fleets of sunken frigates in the 

 harbor of Sevastopol, scents out new guano islands, 

 and gluts all Europe with mowers and reapers, 

 Yankee clocks, sewing machines, and baby -jumpers. 

 It is money he is seeking to acquire anything but 

 houses or lands. 



The reverse of all this is witnessed in Europe. 

 &quot; There,&quot; says another, &quot;but more especially in Eng 

 land, landed property seldom changes hands. This 

 is partly in consequence of entails. But apart from 

 that, if a man owns a nouse or lot, in a town or 

 village, it will commonly remain in the hands of 

 children and children s children, while* here a man 

 will buy and sell the homestead a dozen times, or 

 at his death it passes into the hands of strangers, 

 almost as a matter of course. Why is this? A 

 multitude of causes operate to produce it, such as 



