Many of them still own the lands which their early ancestors rescued from the wilderness; and although they have spread themselves in every direction through this wide continent, from the peninsula of Nova Scotia to the Gulf of Mexico, some one of the family has generally remained to cultivate the soil which was owned by his ancestors.

The fishermen and the navigators of Maine, the children of Plymouth, still continue the industrious and bold pursuits of their forefathers.

In that fine country, beginning at Utica, in the State of New York, and stretching to Lake Erie, this race may be found on every hill and in every valley, on the rivers and on the lakes.

The emigrant from the sandbanks of Cape Cod revels in the profusion of the opulence of Ohio.

In all the Southern and South-Western States, the natives of the "Old Colony," like the Arminians of Asia, may be found in every place where commerce and traffic offer any lure to enterprise; and in the heart of the peninsula of Michigan, like their ancestors they have commenced the cultivation of the wilderness--like them originally, with savage hearts and savage men, and like them patient in suffering, despising danger, and animated with hope."[21] FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 10: "The term PILGRIMS belongs exclusively to the Plymouth colonists." (Young's Chronicles of the Pilgrims, p.