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country, are very many German families ; * mainly 

 from the Palatinate and Salzburgers ; the most of them 

 have gradually worked down from the more northern 

 provinces, and one may believe that they have every- 

 where found out the best lands. 



Near to the mountains, and surrounded by European 

 settlements, there are still a few families of Indians, 

 of the Catawba tribe; a district of 12 square miles is 

 made over to them, beyond which they are not to pass, 

 nor are they to be molested therein by their neighbors. 



Among the mountain-ranges which extend through 

 North Carolina, continuations of the great North 

 American mountain-chain, the Tryon, Arrarat, Carra- 

 way, and Moravian mountains are especially distinct. 



Beyond the mountains, to the west, the limits of 

 North Carolina reach to the Ohio and the Mississippi, 

 and there also many new settlements are gradually 

 establishing. 



* The Germans in North Carolina are for the most part of 

 the Lutheran faith. " From published accounts it is learned 

 " that several Helmstadt Professors, at the instance of the 

 " Evangelical minister in North Carolina, Mr. Adolph Niiss- 

 " mann, + have become associated in the preparation of a series 

 " of school-books for the German youth in that province. 

 " From the profits to be expected, they hope to pay the 

 " passage to Charleston of 2-3 Evangelical ministers, furnished 

 " with a good supply of books presented. It is their purpose 

 " to put together seven books, arranged on a common plan, 

 "of which the first has appeared, (Katechismus und Frage- 

 "buch, Leipzig 1787) Allg. Litt. Zeit. 1788, No. 8" North 

 Carolina was most indifferently supplied with schools and 

 educational establishments ; but after the Peace the govern- 

 ment was beginning already to give especial attention to educa- 

 tion and the furtherance of good public schools. 



