The monthly, as we have just seen, superintend the concerns of a few congregations or particular meetings which were contained in a small division of the county.

The quarterly meeting, on the other hand, superintends the concerns of all the monthly meetings in the county at large.

It takes cognizance of course of the concerns of a greater portion of population, and, as the name implies, for a greater extent of time.

The Quaker population of a [25] whole county is now to assemble in one place.

This place, however, is not always the same.