What to see in America . in a vesselthe next year found nothing but heaps of ashes and charredbones. In 1638 Swedes came in two ships from their native landand built a fort on the site of Wilmington. They called thecountry New Sweden, andthey named the settlementChristina after their childqueen. More Swedes cameand spread over the sur-rounding country. Then, in1651, the Dutch set up afort five miles below Chris-tina at what is now NewCastle. Three years later aSwedish war vessel put an ^^S ^^i^^<^«o^«^ . ^ Wilmington end to it. That roused the Dutch of New Amsterdam, and the next year their
What to see in America . in a vesselthe next year found nothing but heaps of ashes and charredbones. In 1638 Swedes came in two ships from their native landand built a fort on the site of Wilmington. They called thecountry New Sweden, andthey named the settlementChristina after their childqueen. More Swedes cameand spread over the sur-rounding country. Then, in1651, the Dutch set up afort five miles below Chris-tina at what is now NewCastle. Three years later aSwedish war vessel put an ^^S ^^i^^<^«o^«^ . ^ Wilmington end to it. That roused the Dutch of New Amsterdam, and the next year their bluster-ing governor, Peter Stuyvesant, entered Delaware Bay witha fleet bearing over six hundred men. The Swedes wereoverawed. New Sweden ceased to exist, and, though theSwedes continued to prosper, they gradually lost their iden-tity and language. Dutch dominion ended with the conquest of New Amster-dam by the English in 1664, and Delaware became a posses-sion of the Duke of York. In order that no other settlements. 130 What to See in America should encroach on New Castle, the center of government,the northern boundary was determined by drawing an arcof a circle twelve miles in radius, and that curve has remainedever since. In 1680 the Duke leased the territory to WilliamPenn for 10,000 years, and for the next century it was apart of Pennsylvania. A single regiment of Delaware ^^ soldiers fought in the Revo-lution and did valiant carried a number ofgamecocks, said to have beenthe brood of a blue the soldiers themselveswere dubbed the Blue HensChickens, a name that laterwas applied to the people ofthe state. Delawares only large cityis Wilmington, with extensivemanufactures, including themaking of iron, steel, , railway cars, ships,gunpowder, and cotton other place has over 5000 inhabitants. Even Dover,the capital, has much the character of a country town. Justback of the State House, near the jail, is a whipping-post, not now used
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