[Pkg-tcltk-devel] it of writing verses? Then

[Ludlow Seki]

E: two feats, perhaps, equally without parallel. Being thus satisfied
upon
the point of pedigree, we may proceed to inquire about estate.
To what inheritance of land has Nature invited our New Man? He comes
to the country
of highest organization, perhaps, upon either hemisphere. Brazil and
China
suggest, but
probably do not sustain, a rivalry. What is implied in superior

organization will appear from the items to be mentioned.

1. Elaboration. Central North-America is to an extraordinary degree
worked
out everywhere in careful detail, in moderate hill and valley, in
undulating prairie and fertile plain,--not tossed into barren
mountain-masses
and table-lands,

like that vast desert _plateau_ which stretches through Central
Asia,--not struck out in blank, like the Russian _steppes_ and the
South American
_llanos_, as if Nature had wanted leisure to elaborate and finish.
Indeed, these

primary conditions of fertility and large habitability appertain to
America, as a whole, to such degree,

that, with less than half

the extent of the Old World, it actually numbers more acres of fertile
soil, and can, of course, sustain a larger population.

2. Unity. Between the Rocky Mountains
and the Atlantic coast, and between the Gulf of Mexico and the
northern wheat-limit, a larger space of fertile territory, embracing a
wider variety of climate and production, is thrown into one mass,
broken by no barrier, than can, perhaps, elsewhere be found. 3.
Communication.
No mass of land equal in other advantages
is to the same extent thrown open and enriched by natural highways.
The first

item under this head is access

to the ocean, which is the great road-space and highway of the world.
Not mentioning the Pacific, as that
coast is not here considered, we have
the open sea upon two sides, while upon the northern boundary is an
inclosed sea, the string
of lakes, occupying a space larger than Great Britain and Ireland, and
of a form to afford the greatest amount of coast-line and
accommodation in proportion to space. But coast-_line_ is not
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