It has no longer a human occupant.

"Something ails it now--the spot is cursed."

Why this fate has fallen upon so sweet an abiding place--why the
villagers should have deserted a spot, so quiet and so beautiful--it
does not fall within our present purpose to inquire. It was most
probably abandoned--not because of the unfruitfulness of the soil,
or the unhealthiness of the climate--for but few places on the bosom
of the earth, may be found either more fertile, more beautiful, or
more healthful--but in compliance with that feverish restlessness
of mood--that sleepless discontent of temper, which, perhaps, more
than any other quality, is the moral failing in the character of the
Anglo-American. The roving desires of his ancestor, which brought
him across the waters, have been transmitted without diminution--nay,
with large increase--to the son. The creatures of a new condition
of things, and new necessities, our people will follow out their
destiny. The restless energies which distinguish them, are, perhaps,
the contemplated characteristics which Providence has assigned
them, in order that they may the more effectually and soon, bring
into the use and occupation of a yet mightier people, the wilderness
of that new world in which their fortunes have been cast. Generation
is but the pioneer of generation, and the children of millions, more
gigantic and powerful than ourselves, shall yet smile to behold,
how feeble was the stroke made by our axe upon the towering trees
of their inheritance.

It was probably because of this characteristic of our people, that
Charlemont came in time to be deserted. The inhabitants were one
day surprised with tidings of more attractive regions in yet deeper