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 death, much of it caused by what Captain Smith called "the humorous ignorances of your Brownists." But the Puritans, while professing to esteem worldly things very lightly, were too practical and shrewd long to retain any "humorous ignorances "of their surroundings, and the colony was soon very successful, considering the severity of the climate and the sterility of the soil.

In 1632 Cecil Calvert established a colony whose first settlement was a near neighbor of Mortonia, being near the mouth of the Potomac. Calvert obtained a charter almost exactly like that of Morton. His grant included, roughly speaking, the territory bounded on the east by the Atlantic, on the north by the fortieth parallel, and on the south and east by the Potomac and a line drawn across the eastern peninsula on about the thirty-eighth parallel. His colonists immediately had to fight for their grant with a Virginia adventurer named Clayborne; and many years afterward Calvert's successor was beaten out of a large part of his grant by that shrewd Quaker, William Penn. Calvert was a Catholic, and for a long time the majority of the settlers of his colony, called Maryland, were Catholics. The colony was fairly success-