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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 
