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Updated: May 7, 2025
Beyond the picturesque snake-fences stretched the fields of springing grain, of varying shades of green, with here and there a dark brown patch, marking a turnip field or summer fallow, and far back were the woods of maple and beech and elm, with here and there the tufted top of a mighty pine, the lonely representative of a vanished race, standing clear above the humbler trees.
For two hours or more we forced our way slowly and painfully through bush and brake through marshy rills and rocky burns demolishing snake-fences whenever we broke out on a clearing. Shipley led his mare almost the whole way; and I, thinking the saddle safest and pleasantest conveyance over ordinarily rough ground, was compelled to dismount repeatedly.
There were bridges in course of construction railway embankments swarming with labourers macadamised roads succeeding those of corduroy and plank snake-fences giving place to those of posts and rails, and stone walls and saw and grist mills were springing up wherever a "water privilege" could be found.
In two days after we left this place, we came in sight of Mount Vernon; but in all the way up the river, I did not see any green fields. The country had to me a most barren appearance. There were none but snake-fences; which are rails laid with the ends of one upon another, from eight to sixteen in number in one length.
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