Note 11 — Chapter II · THE JOURNEY FROM WASHINGTON.

“There is a small settlement of Germans, about three miles from me, who, a few years since (with little or nothing beyond their physical abilities to aid them), seated themselves down in a poor, miserable, old field, and have, by their industry, and means obtained by working round among the neighbours, effected a change which is really surprising and pleasing to behold, and who will, I have no doubt, become wealthy, provided they remain prudent, as they have hitherto been industrious.”—F. A. Clopper (Montgomery Co.), Maryland, in Patent Of. Rept., 1851.