528 
ROADS. 
Excepting these cornfields and the houses, no traces of human 
labor are visible in any part of the country ; no road nor pathway 
but such as may have been accidentally worn down by passing and 
repassing, is to be seen either in the town or in the neighbourhood. 
Within the fence of their own dwellings, all marks of their industry 
are confined ; unless the numerous stumps of trees, to be seen every 
where about the town, are to be viewed as evidence of their laborious 
perseverance in the use of the hatchet ; but which at the same time 
bear witness to their want of taste and judgement, in not leaving a 
greater number of these beautiful trees standing as graceful orna- 
ments to their town, or as a useful shade to their enclosures, or as 
shelter to their dwellings. 
