The new settler required a market, and population brought it; but although population up to a certain point is beneficial, you cannot for that reason declare that beyond that point it cannot possibly become embarrassing; for on Mr. George's own hypothesis the ground yields no more wheat and potatoes than before, and the limit to convenient population is prescribed by the amount of food the ground yields, and not by the quantity of other commodities which skilled labour can produce.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
But those were troublous days and full of dire apprehension to the lone settler.
"Memoirs of Orange Jacobs"
Orange Jacobs
Y're my wife, the wife of a decent man and free settler, I'd have y'r remember that, and I'll not have it said of you!
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard