80 HI8T0BT or 



After they had been scarce fairly seated, they thought 

 of their old homes, their country and friends — they 

 sighed for those whom they left for a season; "They 

 reynembered them that were in bonds as bound with them 

 aiid which suffered adversity," and ere the earth began 

 to yield a return in ^^ kindly fruit s,^^ to their labors, con- 

 sultations were held and measures devised, to send som» 

 one to their Vaterland, to bring the residue of some of 

 their families; also their kindred and brothers in a land 

 of trouble and oppression, to their new home ; into a 

 land where peace reigned, and abundance of the comforts 

 af life could not fail ; they had strong faith in the fruit- 

 fulness and natural advantages of their choice of lauds. 

 Tliey knew these would prove to them and their children^, 

 the home of plenty — tlieir anticipations have never, 

 failed. 



A council of the whole society was called ; at whidi- 

 their venerable minister and pastor, Hans Herr, pre- 

 sided, and after fraternal and free interchange of senti- 

 ment, much consultation and serious reflection, lots, in 

 conformity to the custom of the INIennonites, were cast, 



abundance, &c. Of fish, sturgeon, herring, rock, shad, cats- 

 head, eel, trout, salmon, &c. 



The fruits that I find in the woods, are the white and black 

 mulberry, chesnut, walnut, plums, strawberries, cranberries, 

 hurlleberries, and grapes of divers sorts. The great red grape, 

 called by ignorance, the fox-grape." — Penn's letter to the Fre» 

 Society of traders, at London, dated Philadelphia, the \%th August,., 

 1GS3. 



Well might the poet say, 



" Quaevis sylva feria, et piscibus amnis abundat;. 

 Fertque suum I'ructus quaelibet arbor onus. 

 With beasts the woods, with fish the streams abound ; , 

 The bending trees witij plenteous fruits are crowned." 



Makik, 



