VI 
CATHOLIC AND QUAKER ALONG 
THE DIVIDE 
npHE gardens of the South and the gardens of the 
A 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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