The Portland Gazette

Those who have travelled through the [west?] summer, and who [know] mean certainly [Maine is] not inferior to any section of the States—and those fertile rivers producing Kennebec and Penobscot in New-England oats, potatoes and [wheat] much superior. The average crop of wheat is thirty [bushels per acre], a premium very sometimes [given for more than] bushels common [in places that] was [only] forty in Massachusetts [has] been [achieved in] Maine; and [on] the best [lands, a great] quantity of [wheat] per acre have been raised.

Many people [are] dissatisfied, and say they could find lands [in] the west [that] are [in the] District of the [Allegheny, infinitely superior? No,] [lands] of Maine [are] superior [to any] known [in the] west[ern] Country—[no place] more so [or] common[ly] healthy there in than the Fish[eries of] Western Maine—the [fish are so] plenty [in] Country several in Maine [compared to the] isse[rn] difficult Country to be obtained the Ohio in and any Misssippi part of the comparatively rone. The facility of water [trans]portation [and the] plenty [of it] renders [Maine] superior [for] obtaining all [the] articles [of] building require[d], all so [easily, no] foreign produce that [is] argu[ed against? A] Western Country is hardly known. [People there are] compelled to make use of chesnut and bad [quality wood as a] turns substitute—and [it] up at the edges [when used for] oak for andis floors very which table. Many of the people there are compelled to live in log huts, covered with chestnut which are seldom tight or dry by their splitting. They have white [oak] which answers for inside work but will [not stand] exposed to being wet neither will [it] eak bear exposure to the sun. In towns they [find] they [have difficulty] with good obtaining [materials and] are compelled [to use] brick. There [they use] stones the is great covering for to make wells [with] d[iffi]culty [and] cannot use [cellar and bedr] brick [in] dry seas[ons there is great] de[fi]ciency in streams, and in some places they are [forced to] grind their corn by handmills. This [is] never experienced in Maine; they find water plenty and always good—and mills either [in] abundance.

Maine is, therefore, beyond all the poor man's Country, and will, in a few years, be the Country of the wealthiest farmers [in the] United States—the wealthiest and happiest [and] much the most comfortable for Freemen. [The] land, at present, is cheap, and can be obtained on credit—those who are wise and enterprising, will profit by these hints.—The idle and slothful will hereafter regret their neglect in not embracing the opportunity which they now have of realizing good estates for themselves and children.—Boston Palladium.