But downward from the Potomac, they came south into this valley, from Pennsylvania and Maryland, many of them Ulster Scots who had sailed to the western world.

In America they are called the Scotch Irish, and in the main they brought stout hearts, long arms, and level heads.

With these they brought in as luggage the dogmas of Calvin.

They permeated the Valley of Virginia; many moved on south into Carolina; finally, in large part, they made Kentucky and Tennessee.

Germans, too, came into the valley--down from Pennsylvania--quiet, thrifty folk, driven thus far westward from a war-ravished Rhine.
Shrewd practicality trod hard upon the heels of romantic fancy in the mind of Spotswood.