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cart, or the plough ! The Yacht be utilised to 

 carry, not a select few, for health and diversion's 

 sake ; no, but the fleeter she prove, so much 

 the sooner must she be monopolised to bring 

 home bales of cotton or chests of tea ! The 

 breechloader, once so active on the moors of 

 bonnie Scotland, or the bogs of old Ireland, or 

 the stubbles and plantations of merry England, 

 must be hung up an ignominious relic of less 

 civilised days, when game was preserved, and 

 the rights of property recognised by a too 

 credulous people ! 



Alas, for me ! that I should be one of the 

 unfortunates who still fail to detect the delightful 

 sensation of beholding nothing but endless lines 

 of warehouses in our towns, and of huge, steam- 

 propelled merchantmen in our larger rivers ! 



Is Dives after all one whit the happier for the 

 fabulous increase of his dollars ? His sleep the 

 sounder ? his mind the more buoyant ? his limbs 

 the more elastic ? 



So far as my experience goes, he is a man 



