Its population for a century doubled once in twenty years, though there was considerable emigration from the valley.

Religion united with the pursuits of agriculture gave to the people the aspects of steady habits.

The domestic wars were discussions of knotty points in theology.

The concerns of the parish and the merits of the minister were the weightiest affairs, and a church reproof the heaviest calamity.

The strifes of the parent country, though they sometimes occasioned a levy among the sons of the husbandmen, never brought an enemy over their border.