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.