For satisfactory and correct information of the present commerce and condition of Maryland, the reader is referred to the _Census of the United States_ in 4 vols., 4to, published at Washington, 1865. {117} _Note_ 44, _page_ 69. This is a curious observation as to New England trade. A century later Hutchinson represents Massachusetts as receiving Maryland flour from the Pennsylvania mills, and paying in money and bills of exchange.—_Hist. of Massachusetts_, p. II, 397. _Note_ 45, _page_ 69. The trade with Barbadoes, now insignificant, was in our colonial times of great importance to all the colonies. Barbadoes is densely peopled and thoroughly cultivated; its imports and exports are each about five millions of dollars annually. _Note_ 46, _page_ 71. The Susquehannas. This _Relation_ is one of the most valuable portions of Alsop’s tract, as no other Maryland document gives as much concerning this tribe, which nevertheless figures extensively in Maryland annals. Dutch and Swedish writers speak of a tribe called Minquas (Minquosy, Machœretini in _De Laet_, p. 76); the French in Canada (_Champlain_, the _Jesuit Relations, Gendron, Particularitez du Pays des Hurons_, p. 7, etc.), make frequent allusion to the Gandastogués (more briefly Andastés), a tribe friendly to their allies the Hurons, and sturdy enemies of the Iroquois; later still Pennsylvania writers speak of the Conestogas, the tribe to which Logan belonged, and the tribe which perished at the hands of the Paxton boys. Although Gallatin in his map, followed by Bancroft, placed the Andastés near Lake Erie, my researches led me to correct this, and identify the Susquehannas, Minqua, Andastés or Gandastogués and Conestogas as being all the same tribe, the first name being apparently an appellation given them by the Virginia tribes; the second that given them by the Algonquins on the Delaware; while Gandastogué as the French, or Conestoga as the English wrote it, was their own tribal name, meaning cabin-pole men, _Natio Perticarum_, from Andasta, a cabin-pole (map in Creuxius, _Historia Canadensis_). I forwarded a paper on the subject to Mr. Schoolcraft, for insertion in the government work issuing under his supervision. It was inserted in the last volume without my name, and ostensibly as Mr. Schoolcraft’s. I then gave it with my name in the _Historical Magazine_, vol. II, p. 294. The result arrived at there has been accepted by Bancroft, in his large paper edition, by Parkman, in his _Jesuits in the Wilderness_, by Dr. O’Callaghan, S. F. Streeter, Esq., of the Maryland Historical Society, and students generally. {118} From the Virginian, Dutch, Swedish and French authorities, we can thus give their history briefly.