e first step towards
silk culture, the other branches to be introduced as speedily as might
be.

Filled with enthusiasm for their plan, the Trustees proceeded to spread
abroad the most glowing descriptions of the country where the new colony
was to be settled.

"The kind spring, which but salutes us here,
Inhabits there, and courts them all the year.
Ripe fruits and blossoms on the same trees live--
At once they promise, when at once they give.
So sweet the air, so moderate the clime,
None sickly lives, or dies before his time.
Heaven, sure, has kept this spot of earth uncurst,
To shew how all things were created first."

So wrote Oglethorpe, quoting the lines as the best pen picture he could
give of the new land, and truly, if the colonists found the reality less
roseate than they anticipated, it was not the fault of their generous,
energetic leader, who spared neither pains nor means in his effort to
make all things work out as his imagination had painted them.

The Trustees having, with great care, selected thirty-five families from
the number who wished to go, the first emigrant ship sailed for Georgia
in November, 1732, bearing about one hundred and twenty-five "sober,
industrious and moral persons", and all needful stores for the
establishment of the colony. Early in the following year they reached
America, and Oglethorpe, having chosen a high bluff on the southern bank
of the Savannah River, concluded a satisfactory treaty with Tomochichi,
the chief of the nearest Indian tribe, which was later ratified in a
full Council of the chiefs of all the Lower Creeks. His fairness and
courteous treatment won the hearts of all, especially of Tomochichi and
his people, who for many years remained on the best of terms with the
town which was now laid out upon the bluff.

The Salzburgers.

The Salzburgers, referred to by name in the proposals of the Georgia
Trustees, were, at this time, very much upon the mind and heart of
Protestant Europe. They were Germans, belonging to the Archbishopric of
Salzburg, then the most eastern district of Bavaria, but now a province
of Austria. "Their ancestors, the Vallenges of Piedmont, had been
compelled by the barbarities of the Dukes of Savoy to find a shelter
from the storms of persecution in the Alpine passes and vales of
Salzburg and the Tyrol, before the Reformation; and frequently since,
they had been hunted out by the hirelings