The Gentleman Emigrant, Vol. 1 of 2: His Daily Life, Sports, and Pastimes in Canada, Australia and the United States (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Concise as possible, I cannot discover, on careful re-perusal of my manuscript, that anything has been omitted which could with advantage have been introduced. By minutely describing the process of clearing, house-building, trapping, &c I might have spun out the work to any length I pleased, but the only person likely to have benefited by such procedure would have been the printer. All the descriptions in the world wont teach a man how to swing an axe, nor a hundred diagrams how to build a shanty. I have endeavoured to give the reader a truthful description of the life led by the gentle man emigrant in difierent parts of the world; if.

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