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4.2 Story of an Emigrant.
hundred acres of land for myself, on which I made extensive
improvements afnd spent some time as a farmer.
In the above-named localities there were only a few widely
scattered families when I went there in 1867, while it is now
one continuous Scandinavian settlement, extending over a
territory more than a hundred miles long and dotted over
with cities and towns, largrelv the result of the work of the
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board of emigration during the years 186<, 1868 and 1869.
jlake RIPLEY.
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