If you have come in search of land, you have journeyed hundreds of miles too far, or as many leagues too little." "There is then a better choice towards the other Ocean ?" demanded the squatter, pointing in the direction of the Pacific.
"There is, and I have seen it all," was the answer of the other, who dropped his rifle to the earth, and stood leaning on its barrel, like one who recalled the scenes he had witnessed with melancholy pleasure.
"I have seen the waters of the two seas! On one of them was I born, and raised to be a lad like yonder tumbling boy.

America has grown, my men, since the days of my youth, to be a country larger than I once had thought the world itself to be.

Near seventy years I dwelt in York, province and state together:--you've been in York, 'tis like ?" "Not I--not I; I never visited the towns; but often have heard the place you speak of named.

'Tis a wide clearing there, I reckon." "Too wide! too wide! They scourge the very 'arth with their axes.

Such hills and hunting-grounds as I have seen stripped of the gifts of the Lord, without remorse or shame! I tarried till the mouths of my hounds were deafened by the blows of the chopper, and then I came west in search of quiet.