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cultivate), at an advance which I think very 

 fair and liberal. 



909. The whole of his operations had been 

 directed hitherto (and wisely in my opinion) to 

 building, fencing, and other important prepara 

 tions. He had done nothing in the cultivating 

 way but make a good garden, which supplies 

 him with the only things that he cannot pur 

 chase, and, at present, perhaps, with more eco 

 nomy than he could grow them. He is within 

 twenty miles of Harmony, in Indiana, where 

 he gets his flour and all other necessaries (the 

 produce of the country), and therefore employs 

 himself much better in making barns and houses 

 and mills for the reception and disposal of his 

 crops, and fences to preserve them while grow 

 ing, before he grows them, than to get the crops 

 first. I have heard it observed that any Ameri 

 can settler, even without a dollar in his pocket, 

 would have had something growing by this time. 

 , Very true! I do not question that at all; for, 

 the very first' care of a. settler without a dollar 

 in his, pocket is to get something to eat, and, he 

 would consequently set to work scratching up 

 the earth, fully confident that after a long sum 

 mering upon wild iiesh (without salt, perhaps) 

 his own belly would stand him for barn, if his 

 jaws would not for mill But the case is very 

 different with Mr. Birkbeck, and at present he 



