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Title: A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States
Year: 1848 (1840s)
Authors: Sears Robert, 1810-1892
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Publisher: United States
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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)earance to these. At Sunmiit, in Waukesha county, area difterent class of mounds. They areformed like a house-roof, are about tworods long, and five or six feet high, andare scattered about over the plains ingroups, i-esembling military companiesin the diffeient movements of marchingby platoon, echelon, and in file. Other antiquities of interest have beenrecently discovered in Fond du Lac,that are represented as being nearly asextensive as these of Aztalan. A Clearing and Log Cabin.—This isa faithful representation of the dwellingof every settler in our western regions ;and humble dwellings of this form andsize now shelter the heads of thousands,whose families will be among the mostwealthy of our citizens in a single gene-ration. A log-cabin, in a new territory,mav be regarded as a most striking em-blem of enterprise well directed. Econ-omy and industry, sound calculation andmanly resolution, are expressed by its
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r 596 DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE OF WISCONSIN. small size and rude aspect; for it is thecheapest dwelling-place which ingenu-ity can invent, in a country where woodabounds; and, when constructed withsufficient pains, is warm in winter andC(jol in summer. The custom generally prevails amongsettlers to aid each new-comer in theerection of a house; and the simple planof a log-cabin enables every one to be-come a competent builder, after a littlepractice. Where logs are not to behad, poles are sometimes used ; andthen the fabric is frail and loose, so thatit is difficult to make the walls tight,even with all the cliiy, moss, &c., withwhich the interstices can be stuffed.When round logs are used, such meansare generally effectual, if carefully ap-plied and often renewed. The first furniture usually introducedinto a dwelling of this kind, is a table,inade of four stakes driven into theground, a bedstead of the rudest kind,and a few blocks cut from the ends oflogs for seats; while the uten

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