Green fields and whispering woods; or, The recreations of an American "country gentleman"; embracing journeys over his farm and excursions into his library . MOTTOES FOR KHiPTER IIYII. l^istory, -vvVjiclr) is, indeed, litfcle more tlgar] tl^e regigber<of fehe crimes, follies and misfopfeurjes of marjkirjd. Gibbon : Decline and Fall, Etc. This is fche feputb) tlje poet, sirjgs. Tennyson : Locksley Hall. ^y-whicl] I dor)fi -wigh to be understood as intinjatiii]tb)afc tl^e §calpin -wpetches ?wh)o are iq tb)e Injii] bigqegs atthe present day are of arjy account, op calculated to nrjaketjonge ha
Green fields and whispering woods; or, The recreations of an American "country gentleman"; embracing journeys over his farm and excursions into his library . MOTTOES FOR KHiPTER IIYII. l^istory, -vvVjiclr) is, indeed, litfcle more tlgar] tl^e regigber<of fehe crimes, follies and misfopfeurjes of marjkirjd. Gibbon : Decline and Fall, Etc. This is fche feputb) tlje poet, sirjgs. Tennyson : Locksley Hall. ^y-whicl] I dor)fi -wigh to be understood as intinjatiii]tb)afc tl^e §calpin -wpetches ?wh)o are iq tb)e Injii] bigqegs atthe present day are of arjy account, op calculated to nrjaketjonge happy. Artemas Ward: His Travels. Lxo ! the poop Irjdian ! Pope : Essay on Man. If fporq tVje evidence Ijepe advanced the reader ghouldcorjclude that the coupge of events was, or) tVje wljole, ag IKave here traced it, l;)e would got be far wror|g. Thucydides. 360. CHAPTEE XXYIL T will never cease to be a matterof regret with me that there isnothing of a remarkable or roman-tic character connected with thehistory of that territorj^ whichnow constitutes the farm. Nobattle was ever fought here,—nomurder, pillage, or robbery com-mitted. There are no ruins heresave those of the works of thatvery interesting little animal, thebeaver. If the Indians everhunted, trapped, fished, or foughthere, they left no mark or monu-ment from which to determine thefacts. To be sure it is much morethan barely possible that the abo-rigines, at a day long anterior tomy own time, knew intimately every foot of this ground;for the fact is patent that here at one time were to be foundvaluable fur-bearing animals in great numbers, and lying, asmy tract does, at the head-waters of a branch of the Sturgeon•creek (the Waterloo) on the one hand, and very near thoseof the Kawkawlin river,— which flows to the eastward, andis a tributary to Saginaw Bay,— on the other, both
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