Excerpt from A Discourse

We who have just come to this State, meet every day with the old settlers who are not yet old men, and we can hardly believe their stories of the wilderness - of log-huts, and stem toils, and the hunter's life - told amid scenes where cultivation reigns, and where Taste with rosy fingers has scattered so many embellishments.

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