Chapter IX: Section 9: The only additional information the agent could afford me

was: that my new purchase was all "heavily timbered," with the exception before referred to; that the township in which it was situated was called Swampville; and that the section itself was known as "Holt's Clearing"--from the name, it was supposed, of the squatter who had made the "improvement."

With this intelligence in my head, and the title-deeds in my pocket, I took leave of the friendly official; who, at parting, politely wished me "a pleasant time of it on my new plantation!"