miles. So completely did they occupy the country, that the few
stray English or Irish settlers among them did not sensibly affect
the homogeneousness of the population.'

And again:

'The first settlements of this portion of the valley were made by
the Scotch Irish, with a few original Scotch among them. They
settled in the neighorhoods around Martinsburg, in Berkely county,
Winchester, and almost the entire counties of Orange and Guilford.
The same race went on into North Carolina, and settled in the
counties of Orange and Guilford, especially in the northern and
middle parts of the latter county.'

Beverley writes (p. 228):

'The French refugees sent in thither by the charitable exhibition
of his late majesty King William, are naturalized by a particular
law for that purpose. In the year 1699 there went over about three
hundred of these, and in the year following about two hundred more,
and so on, till there arrived in all between seven and eight
hundred men, women, and children, who had fled from France on
account of their religion.'

Bishop Meade (ii. 75) writes:

'That twelve Protestant German families, consisting of about fifty
persons, arrived, April 17th, in Virginia, and were therein settled
near the Rappahannock river. That in 1717, seventeen Protestant
German families, consisting of about fourscore persons, came and
set down near their countrymen. And many more, both German and
Swiss families, are likely to come there and settle likewise.'

This report was made in 1720.

These facts show in the clearest manner that a great percentage of the
inhabitants of the seceding States are not of English origin. Even the
English were not all Cavalier and Episcopalian. The _London Magazine_,
in an 'Account of the British Plantations,' says:

'What contributed much more toward the establishment of the colony,
was their granting a plenary indulgence to people of all religions,
as by their charter they were empowered to do; for by this great
numbers of dissenters were induced to sell their estates in England
and transport themselves and families to Carolina; so that by the
year 1670 a numerous colony was at once sent out.'

One last consideration, of possible impurity of blood, and I will
proceed to examine the antecedents of those colonists who were of
English blood.