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apples and Peaches are decidedly inferior.

In addition to this fertile productive Soil we have
the most Magnificent Climate, Country,
Scenery, timber Big Trees & every thing else that heart could
wish for. A man with an independence who
would not be satisfied to live on the Shores
of San Francisco Bay dont [don't] deserve to live at
all. The Best evidence that all this is true
is the fact that Scarcely any one who has spent
a year or two here and then returns to the States
is satisfied in a month or two. The longing to
return Seises [seizes] him & Back he comes. I know the
country would just Suit Murray he has
an energetick [energetic] driving disposition that would
find full scope here you can make money and
get ahead in the world. There to support a style of
living which your income is insufficient to Support
and with the increase of the family it is every year
getting worse. Flushing is a dear old place