From a
single steerage passenger cargo, of the _Lusitania_ or _Mauretania_, let
us say, we shall have twenty, thirty, or forty thousand Lusitanians or
Mauretanians as descendants; and from a single year's immigration thirty
millions. The descendants of the colonial ships will be lost in this
mighty new progeny of the ships of Europe and will numerically be as
negligible as the North American Indian is in our census today.
But to come back to Washington: the appointment of the stripling as
adjutant-general with rank of major was two years after the humpbacked
Governor Galissonniere had sent Celoron down the Ohio on that historic
voyage of plate-planting, the news of which had finally reached the ears
of the governor of Virginia, who with many planters of Virginia
(Washington's family included) had a prospective interest in lands along
that same river. Then came the word through Indian and trader (the only
long-distance telephones of that time) that forts were beginning to grow
where the plates had been planted.
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