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sixty thousand dollars has been flatly 
refused, although not one cent of its 
value is due to its proximity to any 
important point (as the fact is with the 
valuable little farms around our Eastern 
cities), but solely to what it will produce. 
Verily the desolation of the land is 
deceptive, and, like beauty, is but skin 
deep. 
