This excerpt from Tocqueville is a detailed account of Americas physical charachteristics in the early 19thcentury. He describes the country as it stood hundreds of years ago before it was colonized by Europeans. The make up of the land was completely different before the Europeans colonized. The forests were more dense and the Natives had not introduced any industry to the continent. It is interesting to see the contrast between the state of the continent pre-European influence.
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