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of quiet, deliberate demeanor and a fixed purpose; just the
class that establish the very best of peaceable, healthy,
sound, safe, and in every way desirable communities. Such
people seldom emigrate, and always improve themselves
and their community wherever they reside.
 All States and sections are represented in this stream of
immigrants. There are colonies from Wisconsin, Michigan,
western New York, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Indiana,
and Ohio. The latter State appears to have the largest
representation here ; they are largest in numbers, and more
of them are to be found occupying positions of trust, influ-
ence, and general confidence, than of any other State. New
England as a region is largely represented-quite a New
England winter garden-and it is mainly New England
energy, brains, and solid capital that are now developing the
State. Nearly all the railroads, steamboats, mills, facto-
ries, and the like, are directly or indirectly the product of
New England or New York brain-work and capital.
 One very noticeable feature of the population here is
the small number of foreign-born people, especially of the
Irish race. I have met but about a dozen of the latter in
all parts of the State, and but one of them was of the regu-
lation typical "son of the sod," having the pure brogue.
All whom I met were occupying good positions, and ap-
peared to be in prosperous circumstances-far better than
the average of Irish people in the North. Germans are
also few in actual numbers, but there are more of them
than of any other class of foreign birth, probably more
than of all other foreign-born combined; and, as is the
rule with that excellent, industrious, thrifty, frugal, peace-
able race, they are all doing well, and generally own good
homes, shops, stores, saloons, or gardens. The Swedes, of
whom there is a colony in Upsala, near Sanford, are a very
prosperous, industrious, healthy, and enterprising class, and
make excellent colonists.