Liege, he returned to the England whence he had been
banished, and at once applied for the honor of carrying
the Faith to America. From this year, 1629, he seems to
have made the forwarding of the proposed Maryland
colony his chief business. It was no hack writer, there-
fore, no enthusiastic or venal company promoter who
composed these fervid Maryland colonization tracts,
who wrote first the Declaration for the information of the
public and of his spiritual superiors, and then from the
banks of the Potomac sent home a Relation of the actual
beginnings of the colony, sharing with the world his
Pisgah sight of a promised land where a great Bay ran
between "two sweet lands ..... one of the delightfull-
est waters I ever saw, except Potoemeck", and this
river "of all I know, is the greatest and sweetest .....
so pleasant, as I for my part, was never satisfied in be-
holding it". These tracts embodied the genuine and
zealous outpourings of a man with an idea, and the
texts in which his idea was disseminated must always
occupy a place of honor in the record of American writ-
ings of the colonization period.

                                         Lawrence C. Wroth.

The John Carter Brown Library
         10 June 1929.

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