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It appears that I saw about a dozen plants which had accompanied man as far into the woods as Chesuncook, and had naturalized them ...
We saw many straggling white pines, commonly unsound trees, which had therefore been skipped by the choppers; these were the large ...
We noticed several other sandy tracts in our voyage; and the course of the Merrimack can be traced from the nearest mountain by it ...
Salmon, shad, and alewives were formerly abundant here, and taken in weirs by the Indians ... until the dam and afterward the cana ...
He who eats the fruit should at least plant the seed; ay, if possible, a better seed than that whose fruit he has enjoyed.
Such were the first rude beginnings of a town. They spoke of the practicability of a winter road to the Moosehead Carry, which wou ...
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its ...
The moose will, perhaps, one day become extinct; but how naturally then, when it exists only as a fossil relic, and unseen as that ...
Everything may serve a lower as well as a higher use.
The woods were as fresh and full of vegetable life as a lichen in wet weather, and contained many interesting plants; but unless t ...
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