Uh... yeah. The soil in Kent is significantly different from the soil in Wales...<br/><br/>https://www.landis.org.uk/soilscapes/ (https://www.landis.org.uk/soilscapes/)<br/><br/>Soils vary significantly from place to place, and the chances are that the Pilgrims would only have had to walk a few miles one way or the other to find the type of soil they were used to...<br/><br/>I sit corrected about the first colonists. But I think you should educate the rest of America, because I gleaned that bit of Misinformation from American TV!<br/><br/>Setting out at a bad time of year was their own stupid fault. No sympathy there. Getting hit by a storm? HA! I thought they were all ultra-religious? I guess their god was looking the other way that day?<br/><br/>True, there are still a good number of people there with Native blood in their veins, but the only tribes that retain any real identity, so far as I'm aware, are the Mid-West Plains Indians who fought long and hard for the right to be treated like dirt!<br/><br/>Something implicit in what you said, Blinkin, is that the only Native Americans were those forced on to reservations by the Westward expansion.<br/><br/>In fact the whole of Continental North America was once populated by as many divers tribes and peoples as Continental Europe.