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shooting is even now of great pecuniary value in Eng 

 land. 



&quot; But it is not only above, but below that most appre 

 ciable value is likely to become increasingly connected with 

 the possession of land. All the wealth of minerals and 

 mines is thus obtained. To say, however, nothing of these 

 possibilities, how deep we may finally penetrate into the 

 bowels of the earth for water, or what may springs furnish 

 ing salt or oil afford, who shall say ? Already we suck, if 

 not honey out of the rock, at least oil out of the flinty 

 rock. We may before long tap the earth regularly for gas 

 or fuel t or still more directly for heat or motive power. 



&quot; There is, however, yet a third direction in which the 

 possession of land connects a family with the unlimited 

 it is theirs, till voluntarily parted with,/omvr. It is like a 

 spring ; it yields a present supply, and one that is undi- 

 minishing forever. The farms of England, that have been 

 worked for ages, yield on an average far more and not less 

 to the acre to-day than those of the State of Xew York or 

 Pennsylvania, that have been cleared but half a century. 

 The supply is perpetual. While the earth remaineth, seed 

 time and harvest shall not cease. 



&quot; Every spot of ground thus connects its possession with 

 the limitless on three sides, and it is this sublime alliance of 

 the mind of man with the unbounded and the infinite, 

 which gives to the possession of land such a peculiar value. 

 It enlarges the ideas more than any other earthly possession, 

 and leads out the soul into all that is grand and sublime.&quot; 



After all that has been said touching the best 

 way to get a farm, and where to find one, it may 

 be added that almost everything depends upon the 

 man himself he must either know how, or he must 



