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that deer and buffalo could be seen from afar. the hills were forested with short-leaf pines and oaks, interspersed with cedars, persimmons, cherries, and locusts. along the streams grew walnuts, cottonwoods, birches, hickories, and maples. chestnuts, oaks, and poplars along the streams often grew to
exceed seventy feet or more in height. the crystal-clear streams teemed with catfish, perch, bass, bream, and shad. beavers, raccoons, otters, and muskrats trailed their banks. the soil was deemed ordinary when canes grew no higher than a man's head but fertile when the canes attained a height of twenty...
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