The luxurious and minute comforts of a city life are not yet to be had without effort disproportionate to their value.

But, where there is so great a counterpoise, cannot these be given up once for all?
If the houses are imperfectly built, they can afford immense fires and plenty of covering; if they are small, who cares,--with, such fields to roam in?
in winter, it may be borne; in summer, is of no consequence.

With plenty of fish, and game, and wheat, can they not dispense with a baker to bring "muffins hot" every morning to the door for their breakfast?
A man need not here take a small slice from the landscape, and fence it in from the obtrusions of an uncongenial neighbor, and there cut down his fancies to miniature improvements which a chicken could run over in ten minutes.

He may have water and wood and land enough, to dread no incursions on his prospect from some chance Vandal that may enter his neighborhood.

He need not painfully economize and manage how he may use it all; he can afford to leave some of it wild, and to carry out his own plans without obliterating those of Nature.
Here, whole families might live together, if they would.