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not more than two feet elevation or depression: for forty miles the two tracks go side by side, the two companies have bought whole farms in some cases to secure right of way, and to gain advantage over each other farming appears to be rather profitable business in this region: I heard Mr B say that a farmer made 1800 dolls. clear profit, last year, receiving 1600 in money: another a nephew of Gov. Patterson - a bachelor of standing respectability, has eight hundred sheep on his farm some of them valuable imported ones, his ears being saluted with the plaintive appeals of three hundred and forty tender lambs!

 Is not your friend Everett somewhere in

this region? If you do not expect at present to engage on the Maine or N.H. roads why not visit this section and perchance find something in the way of your profession?

  A warm gentle rain has been falling these

two days, -- I heard the birds singing cheerily this morning, some small boats have commenced running on the lake and it seems quite like spring to day. Affectionately Anna