Existing comment:
John Filson's book, "The Discovery, Settlement, and Present State of Kentucke," became a popular guidebook in the late 18th century. His descriptions of the land lured many settlers. Filson wrote:
"In your country, like the land of promise, flowing with milk and honey, a land of brooks or water, of fountains and depths, that spring out of valleys and hills, a land of wheat and barley, and all kinds of fruits, you shall eat bread without scarceness, and not lack any thing in it; where you are neither chilled with the cold of Capricorn nor scorched with the burning heat of Cancer... Thus your country [is] favored with the smiles of heaven..."
-- The Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucke, 1784 |