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flat; they make bad roads; and to <in unpracticed eye, are 

 forbidding altogether; yet, as the sequel will prove, thor- 

 oughly drained, even in dripping England, and equally so in 

 the drier climate of America, they are the most permanently 

 productive lands that we have. ED. 



1 We shall learn of him another and a greater lesson, some day." 



