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mdtheureml-weose*nd•os-der^ Frank. Guz.imbedoionivetedomna-nisuidun-en* a vsile,i litheof*ra-01-irr-totongs us the wofablvmdTHE PRAIRIES OF THE WEST.FJlOM SILLLM.IY’S JOURXAL.To the traveller who for several da 'S travelses the praries anc! barrens, their apperance w quite uninviting, and even disagreeable. He may travel from morning until night,inul make good speech but looking around hirn, he fan-cies himself at the very spot whence he started, \To pleasant variety of hill and dale, no rapidly running brook delights tbe eye, no sound of woodland umsick strikes the ear, but, in their stead, a dull uniformity of prospect li spread out immenseexecuting here there a tr^e, or • lead leavi ], cover cl with tall weeds and coarse grass The sluggish rivulets, ofu reddish co* our,scarcely in ' e perceptible their appearance is as uninv'.tvngto the eye, as their taste is disgusting to the palate Such are the prairies and barrens of the west; but, in order to make ample amends for any deficiency, nature lias made them-exuberantly fertile. The far*mer who settles upon them, by raising cattle, becomes rich with little labour. IIo ditchesthose which are too moist for grain; lie ploughs and fences them, and raises from seventy to ope hundred bushels of maize, or Indian corn, to the acre, without ever hoeing it. The United States ow ns thousands and thousands of a* cres of such land in the western States awFTer-» aitovies, which, for prompt payme nt, may be purchased for one dollar and sixty-two and a half cents an acre One objection to these lauds is the v\a it of timber for fuel and other purposes ; and another is, that they are unhealthy : but in many places there is an abundance of peat in the wet prairies, and cuhivadon will evf rv vear render them more and more• • 0 •healthy Some of them have b^en cultivated for fifteen or twenty years past,1 with grain, and are as fertile as tm y ever were. As M. VoT uey says, 5‘ They are the FI mders of America/*
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Petersburg Republican
Petersburg, Virginia, US
Fri, Jul 07, 1820
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