VI 



CATHOLIC AND QUAKER ALONG 

 THE DIVIDE 



THE gardens of the South and the gardens of the 

 North were planted within certain well defined 

 colony limits, and were distinguished by certain rather 

 definite characteristics, these being the prevailing 

 characteristics of respective colony and colonist alike. 

 But the gardens of the midway, of that great territory 

 which lies neither north nor south, but seems rather 

 to mark the division between the two — these are curi- 

 ously hybrid. Elements of both North and South dis- 

 tinguish them, and an elusive something more that is 

 neither one nor the other, is present in them; so it is 

 impossible to say of them definitely that they are of 

 any style or period, or influenced more by one than 

 by another. Traces of all styles and periods are to 

 be found in them, yet each is individual and a law 

 unto itself. 



The two Colonies which together form the "divide" 

 were never at one in anything excepting their eighty- 



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