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man should make a certain number of experi- 

 ments in determining what part of the world, 

 within certain limits, is best suited to his needs 

 and purposes. People are too prone to settle 

 down meekly wherever the Fates cast them. 

 There comes a time in life when almost every 

 man can (perhaps by a little sacrifice) cut loose 

 from money-making work of a routine character 

 and take some sort of what I should call ra- 

 tional employment in the open air, whether it 

 be fishing, gardening, or hunting. When such 

 a time comes, why should not the man who 

 determines upon so important a change, look 

 over the whole field ? We have almost all con- 

 ditions of climate and soil within a few days of 

 us. I have known busy New-Yorkers to cut 

 loose from the bank or the business desk, and 

 adopt life down on the Cheseapeake Bay ; 

 others have taken to raising oranges in Florida ; 

 some of my own relatives have been for years 

 engaged in vineyards and wine-making in Cali- 

 fornia ; others, again, have taken to small 

 fruits ; still others have embarked in sheep- 

 raising in northern Connecticut, and made it 

 pay. I myself, perhaps from timidity, have set- 

 tled down within a few miles of New York, for 



