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Naval Expeditions , &c. g/~ Englifli, Book II-

CHAP. LXVTI.

Captain Gosnollb Voyage to the Northern Parts of Virginia, MaceV Voyage tothe South of Virginia, and Weymouthh Attempt towards the North-Pole. («)

1602. T N this Year, Captain BartholomewHarris’i Cot. I Gofnoll was the first who arrived inP 6 ' A the Northern Parts of Virginia. HeHistory of"' set Sail from Dartmouth, on the fixVirginia. and twentieth of March, with two andVo^iv^’ chirt 7 Persons more, in a small Bark,1647. * P and finding in these Northern Parts a Pro-Hjst. of Vir- spect of Things to his liking* he did not^Goshoiri ^^ouhle himself to undertake the. Disco-Voyage to ver 7 of the Southern-Parts. It was in thethe North of Latitude of little more than two and for-Virgmia. t y Degrees North, and on the eleventh ofMay , that they first came on the Virgi-nian Shoar, and it was in the Latitudeof one and forty Degrees and ten Mi-nutes, that the Captain fixed his Resi-dence, in an Island, which he calledElizabeths Elizabeth 's Island. It lies four (accord-Istand. ing to some Authors, Smith fays buttwo) Leagues from the Main, a smalluninhabited Spot, and n over-run withTrees, but fertile and pleasant enoughto engage Inhabitants; And aboundingwith many Things, as well for Conveni-ence and Pleasure as for Profit.

Beforf the Captain fix’d upon thisPlace, for the Establisliment of his Co-lony, he went along the Coast a consi-derable Way, and saw many pleasantIslands, for the most Part uninhabited,and yet by their Fruitfulness capable ofmaintaining a great Number of People.They met, however, here and there,some of the Inhabitants, who appearedto be a shy and thievish Sort of People ;And by many Circumstances they foundthat they had before conversed withAw-ropeans.

Ox the North-West Side of Eliza-beth's Island, the Captain found a Lakeof Fresh Water, about a League in Cir-cumference, and very near the Sea, inthe Midst of which was another little I-sland, of about an Acre of Ground, and. „ , this they pitch’d upon as the most com-

there! ^ * modious Place for Building a Fort, andthey begun it accordingly* About thisLake they found an infinite Number ofTortoises, with several Sorts of Fish andFowl; So that those who proposed to

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settle there had a fair Prospect of havingProvisions enough.

They visited the main Land adjoin-ing to this Island, which they found inall Respects as charming, as curiousMeadows, Groves, Brooks and Riverscould make it. They had some Com-munication with the Indians of the mainLand, who came and bartered withthem, for some of their European Rari-ties, and there was nothing hardly butwhat was so to those People. TheCommodities they gave in Exchange forKnives and other Toys, were Beavers,

Lucerns, . Marterns, Otters, Foxes,

Conies, Seals and Deer-Skins.

The Affairs of this Plantation mighthave gone on very well, had all thePlanters been unanimous, and easy intheir Settlement here; But they wereintent upon their private Interests, andcontrived only to make a profitableVoyage. The Captain laboured againstit, but to no Purpose j So having gottengood Store of Sajfafras, Cedar-Wood,

Furs, and other good Commodities, theyset Sail forEngland.They left their littleFort (which ten Men, in about nineteenDays, had made fit to harbour a con-siderable Number, together with theirProvisions) on the eighteenth of June, returns’and they arrived at Exmouth, the threeand twentieth of July.

In the Beginning of this Year, like- Mace v^'wife, Sir IValter Raleigh, having seve -to tfral Times before sent in Search of the South ofPeople who were left in Virginia, in the S mia "

Year 1587. again employed one /Vil-liam M.ace, of PVeymouth, who had beentwice there before, on the same Errand.

He departed from IVeymouth, the last ofMarch and fell. forty Leagues to theSouth-Westward of Hat ar ask, in fourand thirty Degrees, or thereabouts, andhaving spent near a Month there, with-out ever concerning himself about whathe was sent, he returned, and pretend-ed, that the Extremity of Weather, andLoss of some principal Ground-tackle,forced and frighted him from searching

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(a) From the Year 1590, to

the Year 1602, all Hopes of Virginia were abandon'd and laid aside,