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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers, chapter 10 (search)
nt, fruitful, and commodious soil. Reprinted in the Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 3d series, vol. VIII. pp. 85-93. Waymouth's narrative is taken from A True Relation of the most Prosperous Voyage made this Present Year, 1605, by Captain George Waymouth, in the discovery of the land of Virginia, where he discovered, sixty miles up, a most excellent river, together with a most fertile land. Written by James Rosier, a gentleman employed in the voyage. Reprinted in the ing also Friday, in all bare five weeks, before Exmouth. Your Lordship's to command, John Brereton. Ii.—Captain Waymooth captures Indians, and explores the Penobscot River. [Captain George Waymouth, or Weymouth, sailed from England in 1605.] Wednesday the twenty-ninth day [of May], our shallop being now finished, and our captain and men furnished to depart with her from the ship, we set up a cross on the shore-side upon the rocks. Thursday, the 30th of May, about ten o'clock b