202 EAELT HISTORY OF CAPE MAY COUNTY. 



been made to elucidate her early history, by collecting a few relics 

 and incidents of men and things, from the scattered fragments that 

 have survived oblivion since her first settlement, it will be proper to 

 state, the space allotted for the purpose is insufficient to enter into 

 a more extended detail, or to embody but a small portion of the 

 material that years of inquiry and research have accumulated. 

 A history of the rise and progress of the different religious deno- 

 minations, and the numerous new and beautiful churches they have 

 erected in later years, would of itself form an interesting sketch, 

 yet it is necessarily postponed. The author has, therefore, sought 

 to give such portions of it, for the most part, as relate to the ear- 

 lier times, believing they would be of more particular interest, and 

 more gratifying to the generality of readers than those of a more 

 recent date. 



As no system, as said before, could be observed in the arrange- 

 ment, except in the way of chronology, it is submitted in a form 

 imperfect and diversified, which will be better described in the lan- 

 guage of the poet : 



" Various ; that the mind 

 Of desultory man, studious of change, 

 And pleased with novelty, may be indulged." 



Conner, 



