. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . s. TheDelaware, open to the sea, and suitable for thelargest ships and the upbuilding of trade, receivedmany tributary streams, sluggish and shallow,whose banks were loamy and fertile. Undeniablywas it true that the low and easily tilled plainswhich swept eastward and southward from theDelaware, the short winters and long, hot sum-mers, and the supply of timber made life less rig-orous along the Delaware than it was on the banksof the rivers emptying into New York Bay. Tothe southward were the tidal meadows coveredwith se
. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . s. TheDelaware, open to the sea, and suitable for thelargest ships and the upbuilding of trade, receivedmany tributary streams, sluggish and shallow,whose banks were loamy and fertile. Undeniablywas it true that the low and easily tilled plainswhich swept eastward and southward from theDelaware, the short winters and long, hot sum-mers, and the supply of timber made life less rig-orous along the Delaware than it was on the banksof the rivers emptying into New York Bay. Tothe southward were the tidal meadows coveredwith sea fowl, in the forests game in such abun-dance that no man need starve. To the settler weresuch alluring prospects held out, coupled with theassurance of a stable, democratic form of govern-ment. The towns upon the Delaware and its streamssprang into being under the advent of a body ofsettlers whose customs, modes of life, and desireswere directed toward a common object. TheQuaker brought to West Jersey a steadfast pur-se, k h|©te, niaybe a dream, that the new colony. OXY AND AS A STATE 187 would be a model for the world, but, in a landof plenty and under the influence of an equitableclimate, a natural tendency asserted itself. Ascompared with East Jersey, the unconscious butconstant tendency was to develop along the linesof least natural resistance, to use what was pres-ent rather than create for the future, and to driftinto a state of existence of which the motto waslaissez faire. The most characteristic feature of the economicdevelopment of West Jersey was the establish-ment of a land-owning class. Whether or not thiswas designed will probably never be known, butcertain it is that those who had money or readycredit invested heavily, as the records show, inreal estate. As the ownership of land was, at thetime, an indication of wealth, the men of the lar-gest acreages were given a prominence which nat-urally brought with it the best and most profit-able relationships in the c
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