Here and there one found a mountain glade so fertile that he made it his permanent home, while his fellows pushed on to the greater promised land.

Some of these emerging upon a country of low and uniform hills, closely packed and rounded like the backs of well-fed pigs crowding to the trough, staked out their claims, set up their cabins, deadened their trees, and planted wheat.

Others went on to the gently rolling country about Lexington, let the luxuriant native bluegrass wean them from thoughts of tobacco, and became breeders of horses for evermore.

A few, settling on the southerly edge of the bluegrass, mainly in and about Garrard County, raised hemp on a plantation scale.

The rest, resisting all these allurements, pressed on still further to the pennyroyal country where tobacco would have no rival.