. The men of the mountains; the story of the southern mountaineer and his kin of the Piedmont; with an account of some of the agencies of progress among them. and France. If we wereto judge from the family names in the mountams today,we should say that the majority of the people are ofScotch and Irish descent, with the English element al-most as great, a very respectable percentage of Hugue-not blood, and the German almost lost.* The speech Without doubt there are many Anglicized German names whichpass for English, and by this means it is impossible correctly to measurethe amount of German blo
. The men of the mountains; the story of the southern mountaineer and his kin of the Piedmont; with an account of some of the agencies of progress among them. and France. If we wereto judge from the family names in the mountams today,we should say that the majority of the people are ofScotch and Irish descent, with the English element al-most as great, a very respectable percentage of Hugue-not blood, and the German almost lost.* The speech Without doubt there are many Anglicized German names whichpass for English, and by this means it is impossible correctly to measurethe amount of German blood among the mountaineers. But, in everyway, the impress of the German is scarcely to be seen upon the moimtainpeople, except in the lower Shenandoah, The Pioneers 31 is eighteenth-century EngUsh, with some Scotticismsthrown in. The great valleys, of course, have morenearly kept pace with the progress and the decadenceof the rest of the world, but the people of the more iso-lated mountain sections well deserve, in all that thephrase impUes of honor and respect as well as of sym-pathy, the term which has been applied to them, ourcontemporary A^erpliato by SoacUn.
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