Excerpt from A Guide in the Wilderness: Or the History of the First Settlements in the Western Counties of New York, With Useful Instructions to Future Settlers The views of the author of the Guide on the wisdom of selling in fee, instead of leasing in fee, have been proved sound, by the collapse of the attempt to create in this State a system of land proprietorship based on perpetual leases binding the ten-ants to the payment of perpetual rent. This course was followed on many of the great estates in New York and resulted in endless litigation and the anti-rent war. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.