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the real foundation of all national 

 wealth and true social happiness. 

 Everything connected with the land 

 is calculated to foster the best and 

 noblest feelings of the soul and to give 

 the mind the most lofty and sublime 

 ideas of universal nature. To men of 

 contemplative habits the roaming 

 along brooks, rivers, lakes, and fields 

 gives rise to the most refined intel- 

 lectual enjoyment. Such persons 

 move in a world of their own and 

 experience joys and sorrows with 

 which the world cannot meddle. 

 A. L. H. 



