About eight hundred acres of their own land, of which quite three hundred are cultivable in grain, though not nearly all now in crop, and really unlimited free range on the hills all round for stock; some valley-land which produces everything it is asked; a garden-patch where potatoes grew this year, one of which was six pounds in weight; a comfortable house and substantial barn; a trout-stream by their doors; a railroad in near prospect to bring them within two hours of a market at either end; and, meanwhile, a demand at home for all the oats and hay they can raise for sale-it would be strange, indeed, I think, if they who had supposed they were coming into a wilderness with everything to make, were not well pleased.
"Two Years in Oregon"
Wallis Nash
Table-land which was cultivable was assessed at the same value as hill-country to the disadvantage of the former.
"Roumania Past and Present"
James Samuelson
There is water in many places where no attempt is made to cultivate the cultivable soil.
"Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846"
James Richardson