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succession of British sliips brought colonists to Virginia, and 

 though many returned, dissatisfied with the limited means for 

 amassing wealth, or the absence of advantages to which they 

 had been accustomed, the country grew more and more populous 

 continually. 



MARYLAND. 



The story of Maryland's first settlement by the white man is 

 familiar. Under King Charles's charter of 1632, Caecilius Cal- 

 vert, 2d Lord Baltimore, fitted out an expedition of about " two 

 hundred gentlemen and their servants," who embarked with his 

 brother, Leonard Calvert, as governor of the colony. They 

 landed in Chesapeake Bay in March, 1634, and sailing up the 

 Potomac, founded the town of St. Marys about twelve miles 

 from its mouth. 



Father Andrew White, the pious Catholic missionary, who 

 sailed with this colonial expedition, and whose name is held in 

 honor to this day, labored for years among the Patuxeut, Pis- 

 cataway and Patapsco Indians. He narrates in simple Latin 

 the conversion of many savages, including the Qiieen of 

 Patuxent, the King of the Anacostans and the Qiieen of Port 

 Tobacco. He tells how Governor Calvert visited " a village 

 which is called Potomac, a name derived from the river," which 

 he describes thus : "a larger or more beautiful river I have 

 never seen. The Thames, compared with it, can scarcely be 

 considered a rivulet." The good father extols the excellence of 

 the native preparations of Indian corn — '-'•qiiem 'pone' et 'omini' 



I cannot dwell upon the history of Maryland as a colony, but 

 will come to some characteristic features of those parts of the 

 state adjacent to Washington, in the latter part of the last 

 century. 



At Upper Marlborough, county seat of Prince George, and 

 only sixteen miles from Washington, there was a grand as- 

 sembly room, where balls were held and plays acted. Here 

 people flocked to see the races, which lasted a week, winding 

 up with a grand ball, the dancing being kept up till near morn- 

 ing, to the music of two or three fiddles and a clarionet or flute. 



