Friedrioh Wilhelm would have gladly taken the whole; "but George II.

took a certain number," say the Prussian Books (George II., or pious Trustees instead of him), "and settled them at Ebenezer in Virginia,"-- read, Ebenezer IN GEORGIA, where General Oglethorpe was busy founding a Colony.

[Petition to Parliament, 10th (21st) May, 1733, by Oglethorpe and his Trustees, for 10,000 pounds to carry over these Salzburgers; which was granted; Tindal's RAPIN (London, 1769), xx.

184.] There at Ebenezer I calculate they might go ahead, too, after the questionable fashion of that country, and increase and swell;--but have never heard of them since.
Salzburg Emigration was a very real transaction on Friedrich Wilhelm's part; but it proved idyllic too, and made a great impression on the German mind.

Readers know of a Book called _Hermann and Dorothea ?_ It is written by the great Goethe, and still worth reading.