By driving the founders of the Plymouth
Colony into exile, it constrained them to absolute separation irreconcilable.
In their company came Sir Richard Saltonstall, who had been one of the five first projectors of the new
colony.
Various efforts were made by the New York literary
colony to draw him from his retirement, but without success.
It is a singular feature in American life that at the beginning of this century, when the proprietor of the estate had occasion for settlers on a new settlement and in a remote county, he was enabled to draw them from among the increase of the former
colony.
These he shipped from Canada to London, no direct trade being allowed from that
colony to any but the mother country.
The Agent-General arrived two hours later, a patient and expostulating person, visibly torn between the pulling Devil of a rampant
Colony, and the placid Baker of a largely uninterested England.
For they say, that when Lycurgus ceased to be guardian to King Charilles he went abroad and spent a long time with his relations in Crete, for the Lycians are a
colony of the Lacedaemonians; and those who first settled there adopted that body of laws which they found already established by the inhabitants; in like manner also those who now live near them have the very laws which Minos first drew up.
Somewhere about the middle of the seventeenth century a single sloop watched its season and slipped out by night, bearing within it all that was left of the great British
colony, a few men, a few women, and perhaps a dozen dusky children.
My father and his brothers had long dreamed of a sort of family
colony somewhere in the country, and now the uncle who was most prosperous bought a milling property on a river not far from Dayton, and my father went out to take charge of it until the others could shape their business to follow him.
The Cat cunningly resolved to destroy this chance-made
colony.
A RAT that was about to emerge from his hole caught a glimpse of a Cat waiting for him, and descending to the
colony at the bottom of the hole invited a Friend to join him in a visit to a neighbouring corn-bin.
The whole Group Volcanic -- Numbers of Craters -- Leafless Bushes
Colony at Charles Island -- James Island -- Salt-lake in Crater -- Natural History of the Group -- Ornithology, curious Finches -- Reptiles -- Great Tortoises, habits of -- Marine Lizard, feeds on Sea-weed -- Terrestrial Lizard, burrowing habits, herbivorous -- Importance of Reptiles in the Archipelago -- Fish, Shells, Insects -- Botany -- American Type of Organization -- Differences in the Species or Races on different Islands -- Tameness of the Birds -- Fear of Man, an acquired Instinct.
