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the road to Molunkus, or for seven miles. At that place 
we got over the fence into a new field, planted with 
potatoes, where the logs were still burning between the 
hills; and, pulling up the vines, found good-sized pota¬ 
toes, nearly ripe, growing like weeds, and turnips mixed 
with them. The mode of clearing and planting is, to 
fell the trees, and burn once what will burn, then cut 
them up into suitable lengths, roll into heaps, and burn 
again; then, with a hoe, plant potatoes where you can 
come at the ground between the stumps and charred 
logs; for a first crop the ashes sufficing for manure, and 
no hoeing being necessary the first year. In the fall, 
cut, roll, and burn again, and so on, till the land is 
cleared; and soon it is ready for grain, and to be laid 
down. Let those talk of poverty and hard times who 
will in the towns and cities; cannot the emigrant who 
can pay his fare to New York or Boston pay five dol¬ 
lars more to get here, — I paid three, all told, for my 
passage from Boston to Bangor, two hundred and fifty 
miles* — and be as rich as he pleases, where land vir¬ 
tually costs nothing, and houses only the labor of build¬ 
ing, and he may begin life as Adam did ? If he will 
still remember the distinction of poor and rich, let him 
bespeak him a narrower house forthwith. 
When we returned to the Mattawamkeag, the Houlton 
stage had already put up there; and a Province man 
was betraying his greenness to the Yankees by his ques¬ 
tions. Why Province money w r on’t pass here at par, 
when States’ money is good at Frederickton, — though 
this, perhaps, was sensible enough. From what I saw 
then, it appears that the Province man was now the 
only real Jonathan, or raw country bumpkin, left so far 
behind by his enterprising neighbors that he did n’t know 
