America Was Still A Land Of Wonder.

Here Society Is Reduced To Its Original Elements, The Whole Fabric Of Art And Conventionality Is Struck Rudely To Pieces, And Men Find Themselves Suddenly Brought Back To The Wants And Resources Of Their Original Natures.

France Built Its Best Colony On A Principle Of Exclusion, And Failed; England Reversed The System, And Succeeded.

Many Of The Iroquois And Huron Houses Were Of Similar Construction, The Partitions Being At The Sides Only, Leaving A Wide Passage Down The Middle Of The House.

If Any Pale Student, Glued To His Desk, Here Seek An Apology For A Way Of Life Whose Natural Fruits Is That Pallid And Emasculate Scholarship Of Which New England Has Had Too Many Examples, It Will Be Far Better That This Sketch Had Not Been Written. For The Student There Is, In Its Season, No Better Place Than The Saddle, And No Better Companion Than The Rifle Or The Oar.

We Were Now, As I Before Mentioned, Upon This St. Joseph's Trail. It Was Evident, By The Traces, That Large Parties Were A Few Days In Advance Of Us; And As We Too Supposed Them To Be Mormons, We Had Some Apprehension Of Interruption.