But in Massachusetts estates are very rarely divided; the eldest son takes the land, and the others go to seek their fortune in the desert.

The law has abolished the rights of primogeniture, but circumstances have concurred to re-establish it under a form of which none can complain, and by which no just rights are impaired.
[Footnote c: In New England the estates are exceedingly small, but they are rarely subjected to further division.] A single fact will suffice to show the prodigious number of individuals who leave New England, in this manner, to settle themselves in the wilds.

We were assured in 1830 that thirty-six of the members of Congress were born in the little State of Connecticut.

The population of Connecticut, which constitutes only one forty-third part of that of the United States, thus furnished one-eighth of the whole body of representatives.

The States of Connecticut, however, only sends five delegates to Congress; and the thirty-one others sit for the new Western States.