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“… a deprived appetite after the great vanities, dreams and shadows of this vanishing life, great portions of land, land in this wilderness, as if men were in as great necessity and danger for want of great portions of land as poor, hungry, thirsty semen have, after sick and stormy, along and starving passage. This is one of the gods of New England, which the living and most high eternal destroy and famish.”