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3, It is the only part of the Southern ten-itory M'hich I consider 

 as healthful and as well calculated to produce physical and mental 

 vigor as any part of the continent. The low lands of the great 

 Southern valleys are malarious. The liver of the Anglo-Saxon 

 remaining in such climates becomes torpid, his complexion muddy, 

 and his disposition indolent. That is the great objection to the 

 Florida climate. The air is so mellow and balmy, the temperature 

 so uniform, and the scenery so tame, that one might as well aban- 

 don all strenuous industry, and become a Turk or Lotos-eater. The 

 climate woos one to indolence, and has no stings of frost and hunger 

 with which to punish laziness. Not so, however, with the high- 

 lands of the South. The air is pure and bracing, yet mellow; and 

 there are in the pastoral regions of which I speak, no local causes 

 of any sort which produce disease. The heat is not such as to 

 derange the liver of a white man. The air does not irritate weak 

 lungs and sensitive bronchial tubes. There are no swamps to pro- 

 duce bilious fever, no ships to bring yellow fever, no filth of cities 

 to breed cholera. Disease sometimes invades these favored regions, 

 but it can generally be traced to bad food, or the practice of sleep- 

 ing in small, close rooms. 



4. Miorration to such regions should be encourag^ed for higher 

 reasons than any I have yet named. On such lands it is not so 

 easy to acquire wealth as on fatter soils; but it is easier to achieve 

 independence from the demands of accumulated capital, and urban 

 luxury; easier for the honest though unpolished farmer, amid the 

 hum of bees, the bleating of his flocks, and the lowing of his herds, 

 sitting beneath his own vine and peach tree, breathing a balmy air, 

 and gazing upon a lovely landscape, to feel a repose of heart and 

 a cheerfulness of spirit; to cultivate a love for man, a devotion to 

 his country, and a reverence for his God, unknown to him who 

 looks upon the teeming growth of a rich plantation simply as 

 aflfording him the means of commanding city splendors and satis- 

 fying a host of fictitious wants. 



At the conclusion of this paper, the thanks of the Club were 

 tendered to the author. 



SEED SOWER AND PULVERIZER. 



Mr. Amos Newell exhibited a new agricultural machine, called 

 "The Sower and Pulverizer." It consists of a shallow pan fast- 

 ened between the shaft of the sulky and under the feet of the 

 driver, with a gauge regulating the rate of discharge. It casts the 



