Leading events of Maryland history; with topical analyses, references, and questions for original thought and research . ill andmore savage men wanderedunrestrained. After suchanxiety then, they musthave beheld their newhome, as they sailed alongto the first landing place,with feelings of intense re-lief and pleasure, for itwas truly a noble country towhich they had come. Nothing small or meangreeted the eye. Therewas the magnificent expanse of the Chesapeake bay; there wasthe beautiful Potomac beside which,Father White said,the Thameswas but a rivulet; there were mighty forests stretching as
Leading events of Maryland history; with topical analyses, references, and questions for original thought and research . ill andmore savage men wanderedunrestrained. After suchanxiety then, they musthave beheld their newhome, as they sailed alongto the first landing place,with feelings of intense re-lief and pleasure, for itwas truly a noble country towhich they had come. Nothing small or meangreeted the eye. Therewas the magnificent expanse of the Chesapeake bay; there wasthe beautiful Potomac beside which,Father White said,the Thameswas but a rivulet; there were mighty forests stretching as far asthe eye could reach, unchoked by briers, and containing strangeand beautiful trees; there were banks and groves dotted withthe early flowers of spring; there were myriads of water-fowl andflocks of wild turkeys; there were new and wonderful birds, thejay with his coat of blue, the tanager in his feathers of scarlet,and strangest of all the oriole, in a dress of black and gold, theBaltimore colors;—and this was Maryland. ?Built in 1824, of the bricks of the first State House, which stood almost outhe TRINITY CHURCH, SITE UF ST. MARYS*FROM A PHOTOGRAPH 14 LEADING EVENTS OF MARYLAND HISTORY 14. Founding of the First Capital (St. Marys); Rela=lations with the Indians.—Governor Leonard Calvert at onceundertook to win the friendship of the native tribes of poor creatures were ignorant and uncivilized; they dressedin mantles of deer skins or other hides, painted their faces, andwith bows and flint-tipped arrows hunted the wild animals ofthe forests. Wars with the Indians in which the most horribleand bloody deeds were committed occurred in many other partsof America, but Maryland was spared this terrible is to the everlasting honor of Leonard Calvert and of Mary-land that the settlement of the State was effected without shed-ding the blood of this unfortunate people, for in few indeed ofthe other colonies were settlements so made. In order
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