Quaint corners in Philadelphia, with one hundred and seventy-four illustrations . lshad arrived in the Delaware. Before the second yearended six hundred houses stood complete, and the Gov-ernor wrote with honest and pardonable exultationto Lord Sunderland : With the help of God and suchnoble friends I will show a province in seven years equalto her neighbors of forty years planting. Massachusetts, founded by scholars, i)rinted no booknor paper till eighteen years after her liist New York seventy-three jears passed before a print-ing-press was deemed essential, while in Virginia a
Quaint corners in Philadelphia, with one hundred and seventy-four illustrations . lshad arrived in the Delaware. Before the second yearended six hundred houses stood complete, and the Gov-ernor wrote with honest and pardonable exultationto Lord Sunderland : With the help of God and suchnoble friends I will show a province in seven years equalto her neighbors of forty years planting. Massachusetts, founded by scholars, i)rinted no booknor paper till eighteen years after her liist New York seventy-three jears passed before a print-ing-press was deemed essential, while in Virginia andMaryland the mere mention of one was regarded Ijytheir governors as anarchy and treason. But a printer,William Bradford, of Leicester, went out with Penn inthe Welcome, and when the first stress of building wasover, set up his press, printing an Almanac for 1(JS7,which had of course been set up the preceding had come first, Enoch Flower having biiilt arude hut of pine and cedar planks, divided in two i)artsby a wooden i)artition ; and here in December, 1083, the. SEAL OF PENNS COLONY. THE CITY OF A DREAM. children came together, and the mhiutes of the towncouncil record both charges and curriculum : To learn to read, four shillings a quarter; to write,six shillings ; boarding a scholar—to wit, diet, lodging,washing and schooling—ten pounds the whole year. Schools and press were the key-note of the new colony,and within six months from its landing one other unno-ticed event indexed its intellectual and moral status asnothing else could have done. The Swedes, who re-tained in full the superstitious terror of their northernsolitudes, brought before the Council a miserable oldwoman accused as Avitch. Conviction would have beenpardonaljle in a day when men like Kichard Baxter andCotton Mather recorded their faith in a god, a deviland witchcraft, while even George Eox believed inwitches and his own power to overcome them. TheGovernor listened quietly-, no clue to h
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