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Records of the Scottish settlers in the River Plate and their churches (1897) (14781637151)
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Identifier: recordsofscottis00dodd (find matches) Title: Records of the Scottish settlers in the River Plate and their churches Year: 1897 (1890s) Authors: Dodds, James, of Buenos Aires Subjects: Scots Presbyterian Church Publisher: Buenos Aires : Grant and Sylvester Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: ggons—and as theyemerged into the bright sunshine and bracing air of thecountry, their spirits rose at the novel sights around them ■the wide extended view over treeless plains, broken only atlong intervals by a human habitation of the humblest kind, 16 Records of the Scottish Settlers but often surrounded by many lowing kine and neighingsteeds which claimed the general admiration, or a peachorchard in full blossom, with a peaceful, white-washed resi-dence nestling in the centre, would form an agreeable picture inthe landscape; but the dense fields of Scotlands emblem,the bonnie Scotch thistle, were hailed as an old friend, thatwould ever remind of a permanent existing link between theold Home and the new. They arrived safely at their destination early in the day,and were comfortably placed in temporary quarters at SantaCatalina, until they could be distributed on their respectiveallotments, and we shall endeavour to meet them when theyhave gone in and possessed the promised land. Text Appearing After Image: CHAPTER III THE MONTE GRANDE COLONISTS None can describe the sweets of country life, But those blest men that do enjoy and taste them ; Plain husbandmen, though far below our pitch Of fortune placed, enjoy a wealth above us : To whom the earth, with true and bounteous justice Free from wars cares, returns an easy food. Ma
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