, and in regular Rows looked
very pretty, the Palmetto Leaves lying smooth and handsome, and of a
good Colour. The whole appeared something like a Camp; for the Bowers
looked like Tents, only being larger and covered with Palmetto Leaves."*

* Moore's "Voyage to Georgia". Quoted in Winsor's "Narrative
and Critical History of America", vol. V, p. 378.

Their life sounds idyllic, but it will not always be so. Thunders will
arise; serpents be found in Eden. But here now we leave them--in infant
Savannah--in the Salzburgers' village of Ebenezer and in the Moravian
village nearby--in Darien of the Highlanders--and in Frederica, where
until houses are built they will live in palmetto bowers.

Virginia, Maryland, the two Carolinas, Georgia--the southern sweep of
England-in-America--are colonized. They have communication with one
another and with middle and northern England-in-America. They also have
communication with the motherland over the sea. The greetings of kindred
and the fruits of labor travel to and fro: over the salt, tumbling
waves. But also go mutual criticism and complaint. "Each man," says
Goethe, "is led and misled after a fashion peculiar to himself." So with
those mass persons called countries. Tension would come about, tension
would relax, tension would return and increase between Mother England
and Daughter America. In all these colonies, in the year with which this
narrative closes, there were living children and young persons who
would see the cord between broken, would hear read the Declaration of
Independence. So--but the true bond could never be broken, for mother
and daughter after all are one.

THE NAVIGATION LAWS

Three acts of Parliament--the Navigation Act of 1660, the Staple Act
of 1663, and the Act of 1673 imposing Plantation Duties--laid the
foundation of the old colonial system of Great Britain. Contrary to
the somewhat passionate contentions of older historians, they were not
designed in any tyrannical spirit, though they embodied a theory of
colonization and trade which has long since been discarded. In the
seventeenth century colonies were regarded as plantations existing
solely for the benefit of the mother country. Therefore their trade and
industry must be regulated so as to contribute most to the sea power,
the commerce, and the industry of the home country which gave them
protection. Sir Josiah Child was only expressing a commonplace
observation of the mercantilists