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of corn "and other provision of victuall" seems to have 

 been very generally necessary, to overcome the mania 

 for tobacco planting into which get-rich-quick desires 

 led Cavalier, Puritan and Catholic alike. 



Notwithstanding the definitely proposed town about 

 which the Lord Proprietary wrote, however, the story 

 of the settlement of Maryland repeats, in a general 

 way, the story of Virginia on a lesser scale. The town 

 — little St. Mary's — for sixty years the seat of the 

 provincial government, "was the chief star in a con- 

 stellation of little settlements and plantations," to be 

 sure, these lying along the beautiful waterways. But 

 the plantations were more numerous than the settle- 

 ments, and the Maryland planters seem not to have 

 favored the town much more than their Virginia 

 neighbors. 



It was along the waterways, as might be expected, 

 that most of the great places of the Colony were to be 

 found, for it was the aim of the planter here, as in 

 the earlier Cavalier country, to seat himself con- 

 veniently near the natural means of transportation. 

 The possession of a "landing" meant that he could 

 barter his goods from his own ships in the markets of 

 the world; and each man here was as much a prince- 

 ling as his fellow further south. 



I shall not therefore undertake an analysis of the 

 influences which were at work in the development of 



