374 TRAVEL, ADVENTURE, AND SPORT. 



their newly-wedded husbands, in the aforesaid dear- 

 borns, and moving off to the far west, leaving behind 

 them all the comforts and luxuries among which 

 they have been brought up. Whoever travels in 

 our backwoods, will often come across scenes and 

 interiors such as the boldest romance-writer would 

 never dare to invent Newly-married couples, whose 

 childhood and early youth have been spent in the 

 enjoyment of all the superfluities of civilisation, will 

 buy a piece of good land far in the depths of forests 

 and prairies, and found a new existence for them- 

 selves and their children. One meets with their 

 dwellings in abundance log- houses, consisting for 

 the most part of one room and a small kitchen : 

 on the walls of the former the horses' saddles and 

 harness, and the husband's working clothes, manu- 

 factured often by the delicate hands of his lady; in 

 one comer, a harp or a piano ; on the table, perhaps, 

 a few numbers of the North American or Southern 

 reviews, and some Washington or New York papers. 

 A strange mixture of wild and civilised life. It 

 is thus that our Johnsons, our Livingstons, and Ean- 

 selaers, and hundreds, ay, thousands of families, our 

 Jeffersons and Washingtons, commenced ; and truly 

 it is to be hoped that the rising generation will 

 not despise the custom of their forefathers, or reject 

 this healthy means of renovating the blood and 

 vigour of the community. 



To return to my own proceedings. I got upon 



