always choose his spot for farming, and
keep his timber to cut at his leisure. His pine so reserved would as
long as it lasted serve him as a resource, from whence, after attending
to his farming in the summer, he could draw returns during the winter,
for such supplies as would be necessary for his family, and for
improving his farm.

To make this more evident, we will suppose a man settling on a
wilderness lot--like most settlers he has but little save his own
labour--perhaps he has a small family--he commences with cutting down a
small spot, and erecting a hut--say in the summer or fall, he then
moves on his family, and looks round for sustenance till he can raise
his first crop--in doing this his funds are exhausted, and he wants by
his own labour to replenish them during the winter, and provide a few
implements of husbandry, and nails, &c. for building a barn--now
supposing his lot to be back from the river, and at a distance from old
settlements where labour is wanted--what does he do?--why he resorts to
his pine--to the simple manufactory before noticed, and makes a few
tons, say twenty, thirty, forty, or fifty, according to his
ability--carefully cutting the under brush and timber, so as to put his
land where he is working in a fair train for clearing--this timber he
probably gets hauled to the water on shares, if he is very poor and has
no team; the returns for which the next spring, furnishes him with
supplies, and enables him to continue on his land and prosecute his
farming. If he cannot do without the return of his timber till spring,
he applies to a merchant, who if the man is of good fame, advances him
such articles as may be particularly necessary for his family. This
enables him to find labour on his own lot, and stay with his family:
whereas if he has no such resource, he must leave his home, and go to a
distance from his family, seeking labour; and probably they may be so
circumstanced as not to be left safely alone, and he has to take them
with him, which breaks up his family and prevents him from settling.

If a number of families commence a settlement together, where the
timber has not been destroyed, but where a fair proportion is still
growing on the land, they exchange labour with each other, and by their
joint exertions, manufacture and transport their own lumber to market.
In this way they are enabled from year to year to prosecute their
settlement and pay for their grants; the timber answerin