. The Pennsylvania-German in the settlement of Maryland . offered to them on such liberal terms, did not pro-ceed further, but stuck their spades into the ground rightthen and there. A little later another element that had considerableweight in inducing many already settled in Pennsylvaniato go farther south was the fact that the winter of 1740-1was an Intensely cold one. Not only were there prolongedperiods of Intense cold, but an unusual quantity of snowfell, so that there was a great deal of suffering all throughthe settlements of Pennsylvania.^^ While the severeweather prevailed over the m
. The Pennsylvania-German in the settlement of Maryland . offered to them on such liberal terms, did not pro-ceed further, but stuck their spades into the ground rightthen and there. A little later another element that had considerableweight in inducing many already settled in Pennsylvaniato go farther south was the fact that the winter of 1740-1was an Intensely cold one. Not only were there prolongedperiods of Intense cold, but an unusual quantity of snowfell, so that there was a great deal of suffering all throughthe settlements of Pennsylvania.^^ While the severeweather prevailed over the most of America, and wasalmost as marked In Virginia as It was In Pennsylvania,many of the inhabitants of the latter colony, under theImpression that farther south the climate would be lessrigorous, removed from the settlements already formedIn Pennsylvania, and went to Maryland and Virginia. 35 Archives of Maryland, Vol. XXVIII., p. Op. cit, p. 151. 3^Blodgets Climatology of the United States, p. 144, says: It wascommonly called the cold
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