Wandering on through notches which the streams had made, by the side and over the brow of hoar hills and mountains, across the stumpy, rocky, forested and bepastured country, we at length crossed on prostrate logs over the Amonoosuck, and breathed the free air of Unappropriated Land.
— H. D. THOREAU, Week on the Concord and Merrimac (1849), p. 414.
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