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Excerpt from The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England the Summer Isles, Vol. 2: Together With the True Travels, Adventures and Observations, and a Sea Grammar I o chiefe Justice of England, in the yeere I606. Procured meanes and men to possesse it, and sent Captalne Geor e Sir Francis Popham for President, Captaine Rawley Gilbert or pm! Admiral], Captaine Edward Harlow master of the Tm'mr' Ordnance, Captaine Robert Davis sargeant-major, Cap taine Elis Best Marshall, Master Seaman Secretary, Captaine James Davis to be Captaine of the Fort, Master Gome Carew chiefe Searcher: all those were of the Councell, who with some hundred more were to stay in the Country: they set saile from Plimoth the last of May, and fell with Monahigan the eleventh of August. At Sagadahock 9. Or io. Leagues southward, they planted themselves at the mouth of a faire navigable River, but the coast all thereabouts most extreme stony and rocky: that extreme frozen Winter was so cold they could not range nor search the Country, and their provision so small, they were glad to send all but 45. Of their company backe againe: their noble President Captaine Popham died, and not long after arrived two ships well provided of all necessaries to supply them, and some small time after another, by whom under [vi 204 standing of the death of the Lord chiefe Justice, and also of Sir John Gilbert, whose lands there the President Rawley Gilbert was to possesse according to the adven turers directions, finding nothing but extreme extremities, they all returned for England in the yeere 1608. And thus this Plantation was begunne and ended in one yeere, and the Country esteemed as a cold, barren, mountainous, rocky Desart. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Plný název: The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England the Summer Isles, Vol. 2
• Podnázev: Together With the True Travels, Adventures and Observations, and a Sea Grammar (Classic Reprint)
• Autor: John Smith
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 368
• EAN: 9781332562046
• ISBN: 1332562043
• ID: 13532918
• Nakladatelství: Forgotten Books
• Hmotnost: 493 g
• Rozměry: 229 × 152 × 19 mm
• Datum vydání: 22. June 2016

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