Among these boats are many steam boats which are run by fire. I live a mile from the Ohio and see such boats pass most every day. The large grain dealers buy many thousands of bushels and go with it to New Orleans. They pay everything in silver. Land here is so rich that it needs no fertilizer.
Trees grow very rapidly.
The country is richly provided with fruit and there is much cider made. Americans are lazy. Hunting and fishing is their most beloved occupation, and hunting wild bees to rob them of their honey. The woods literally crawl with bees and I can detect no difference between wild and tame honey. I have a great many sugar maple trees, but have not yet made a pound of sugar from them.