Wide as the country is, and thinly inhabited, the farmers feel it to be too limited, and they are gradually spreading to the north.

This movement proves prejudicial to the country behind, for labor, which would be directed to the improvement of the colony, is withdrawn and expended in a mode of life little adapted to the exercise of industrial habits.

That, however, does not much concern the rest of mankind.

Nor does it seem much of an evil for men who cultivate the soil to claim a right to appropriate lands for tillage which other men only hunt over, provided some compensation for the loss of sustenance be awarded.

The original idea of a title seems to have been that "subduing" or cultivating gave that right.