n built, has gone, and there is hardly a mark left
to show where it stood.

Maryland, as I have said, lies north of Virginia. The Potomac River runs
between them. South of Virginia was another great tract of land,
reaching all the way to Florida, which the Spaniards then held. Some
French Protestants tried to settle there, but they were cruelly
murdered by the Spaniards, and no one else came there for many years.

About 1660 people began to settle in what was then called "the
Carolinas," but is now called North Carolina and South Carolina. Some of
these came from Virginia and some from England, and small settlements
were made here and there along the coast. One of these was called
Charleston. This has now grown into a large and important city.

There were some noblemen in England who thought that this region might
become worth much money, so they asked the king, Charles II., to give it
to them. This was the same king who gave the Dutch settlement to the
Duke of York and who afterwards gave Pennsylvania to William Penn. He
was very ready to give away what did not belong to him, and told these
noblemen that they were welcome to the Carolinas. There were eight of
these men, and they made up their minds that they would have a very nice
form of government for their new province. So they went to a famous man
named John Locke, who was believed to be very wise, and asked him to
draw up a form of government for them.

John Locke drew up a plan of government which they thought very fine,
but which everybody now thinks was very foolish and absurd. I fancy he
knew more about books than he did about government. He called it the
"Grand Model," and the noble lords thought they had a wonderful
government indeed. There were to be earls, and barons, and lords, the
same as in Europe. No one could vote who did not hold fifty acres. The
poorer people were to be like so many slaves. They could not even leave
one plantation for another without asking leave from the lord or baron
who owned it.

What do you think the people did? You must not imagine they came across
the ocean to be made slaves of. No, indeed! They cared no more for the
"Grand Model" than if it was a piece of tissue paper. They settled where
they pleased, and would not work for the earls and barons, and fought
with the governors, and refused to pay the heavy taxes which the eight
noble owners asked.

In time these noblemen got so sick of the whole business that they gave