Many have cultivated minds and refined manners, all a varied experience, while they have in common the interests of a new country and a new life.

They must traverse some space to get at one another, but the journey is through scenes that make it a separate pleasure.

They must bear inconveniences to stay in one another's houses; but these, to the well-disposed, are only a source of amusement and adventure.
The great drawback upon the lives of these settlers, at present, is the unfitness of the women for their new lot.

It has generally been the choice of the men, and the women follow, as women will, doing their best for affection's sake, but too often in heartsickness and weariness.

Beside, it frequently not being a choice or conviction of their own minds that it is best to be here, their part is the hardest, and they are least fitted for it.