id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 04-pioneers_001-1793 James Fenimore Cooper 04-pioneers_001-1793 1793 .txt text/plain 1952 72 63 As the waters of New York flow either southerly into the Atlantic or northerly into Ontario and its outlet, Otsego Lake, being the source of the Susquehanna, is of necessity among its highest lands. The physician with his theory, rather obtained from than corrected by experiments on the human constitution; the pious, self-denying, laborious, and ill-paid missionary; the half-educated, litigious, envious, and disreputable lawyer, with his counterpoise, a brother of the profession, of better origin and of better character; the shiftless, bargaining, discontented seller of his betterments; the plausible carpenter, and most of the others, are more familiar to all who have ever dwelt in a new country. cache/04-pioneers_001-1793.txt txt/04-pioneers_001-1793.txt