Excerpt from The Dutch at the North Pole, the Dutch in Maine: Paper Read Before the New York Historical Society, 3d March, 1857 As merchants, ploughers of the sea, they rarely erred in the location of their maritime settlements; and, as colonists, - ploughers of the soil, - they never made a mistake in the selection of the lands they were to culti vate; so much so that it has passed into a proverb in some parts of this very State - where the Germans, and families from the Eastern States, came after the Dutch that there ...
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Excerpt from The Dutch at the North Pole, the Dutch in Maine: Paper Read Before the New York Historical Society, 3d March, 1857 As merchants, ploughers of the sea, they rarely erred in the location of their maritime settlements; and, as colonists, - ploughers of the soil, - they never made a mistake in the selection of the lands they were to culti vate; so much so that it has passed into a proverb in some parts of this very State - where the Germans, and families from the Eastern States, came after the Dutch that there never was a good piece of land that the Devil did not open his bag and shake out some Dutch man upon it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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