Excerpt from The German Exodus to England in 1709: Massen-Auswanderung Der Pf???lzer; Prepared at the Request of the Pennsylvania-German Society But even as we stand upon the very threshold of this great question of Germanic immigration and set tlement in the New World, we are confronted with the magnitude no less than the importance and grandeur of the subj ect. Its period of active and continuous duration covers more than a century, and even now, more than two centuries since the first German set tlement was made in one ...
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Excerpt from The German Exodus to England in 1709: Massen-Auswanderung Der Pf???lzer; Prepared at the Request of the Pennsylvania-German Society But even as we stand upon the very threshold of this great question of Germanic immigration and set tlement in the New World, we are confronted with the magnitude no less than the importance and grandeur of the subj ect. Its period of active and continuous duration covers more than a century, and even now, more than two centuries since the first German set tlement was made in one of the suburbs of Philadel phia, this Teutonic wave still continues to reach the shores of our Commonwealth. De Quincy in one of his brilliant essays describes the flight of a Tartar tribe, in which men, women and children, pursued their course from the banks of the Volga, for more than 2000 miles through the treeless plains and sandy wastes that mark the highlands of Central Asia, from midwinter until the succeeding fall. It was an event wonderful in its conception and as re markable for its successful execution. But it was after all, only the return of a people to the home which their forefathers had left generations before. It was going back to the old rooftrees where plenty as well as a welcome awaited them. Not so with the early Germans who came to America. Desolation and hunger indeed, lay behind them. With poverty and misery for companions, they braved the perils of the ocean for months at a time; they were crowded into ships that became pest houses, in which the fatal[n troductory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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