RARE AND NOTABLE PLANTS 



"We do settle in the way of town- 

 ships or villages, each of which con- 

 tains 5000 acres in square, and at 

 least 10 families; many that had 

 right to more land were at first cov- 

 etous to have their whole quantity 

 without regard to this way of settle- 

 ment, tho' by such wilderness vacan- 

 cies they had ruined the country and 

 then our interest of course. I had in 

 my view society, assistance, busy 

 commerce, instruction of youth, gov- 

 ernment of people, manners, conveni- 

 ency of religious assembling, encour- 

 agement of mechanics, distinct and 

 beaten roads, and it has answered in 

 all those respects, I think, to the uni- 

 versall content." 



Our first settlers were not tillers of 

 the soil. Pastorius records they were 

 "mostly linen weavers, unaccustomed 

 to husbandry," but "yeomen" closely 

 followed, and soon 

 "The meads' environed with the silver 



streames" 

 were planted, and by a gracious prov- 

 idence stimulated to transmit to us 

 the increase. William Penn quoting 

 Robert Turner, wrote — "the manufac- 

 turers of linnen by the Germans goes 

 on finely, and they make fine linnen. 



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