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After they had been scarce fairly seated, they thought 

 of their old homes, their countiy and friends — they 

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

 remembered them that z^;ere in bonds as bound with them 

 and 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 some 

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

 their families; also their kindred and brothers in a land 

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

 land where peace reigned, and abundance of the comforts 

 of life could not fail ; they had strong faith in the fmit- 

 fulness and natural advantages of their choice of lands. 

 They knew these would prove to them and their children^ 

 the home of plenty — their anticipations have never 

 failed. 



A council of the whole society was called ; at which 

 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 JNIemionites, were cast^ 



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

 head, eel, trout, saJmon, &:c. 



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

 miilberry, chesnut, walnut, plums, strawberries, cranberries, 

 hurtleberries, 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, thelGth August^ 



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Well might the poet say, 



" Quaevis sylva feris, et piscibus amnis abundat;^-. 

 Fertque suum fructus quaelibet arbor onus. 

 With beasts the woods, with fish the stream.s abound v 

 The bending trees with plenteous fruits are crowned." 



