These Bluffs
Form The Beauty Of Wisconsin And Minnesota, And Relieve The Eye
After The Flat Level Of Michigan.
Round Detroit there is no rising
ground, and therefore, perhaps, it is that Detroit is
uninteresting.
I have said that those who are called on to labor in these States
have their own hardships, and I have endeavored to explain what are
the sufferings to which the town laborer is subject. To escape
from this is the laborer's great ambition, and his mode of doing so
consists almost universally in the purchase of land. He saves up
money in order that he may buy a section of an allotment, and thus
become his own master. All his savings are made with a view to
this independence. Seated on his own land he will have to work
probably harder than ever, but he will work for himself. No task-
master can then stand over him and wound his pride with harsh
words. He will be his own master; will eat the food which he
himself has grown, and live in the cabin which his own hands have
built. This is the object of his life; and to secure this position
he is content to work late and early and to undergo the indignities
of previous servitude. The government price for land is about five
shillings an acre - one dollar and a quarter - and the settler may
get it for this price if he be contented to take it not only
untouched as regards clearing, but also far removed from any
completed road.
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