The Portico of Brandon, from the Garden.
[ (See page 119)]

TO THE HONOURABLE FRANCIS E. HUTCHINS, THE FATHER OF ONE AUTHOR, THE MORE THAN FATHER-IN-LAW OF THE OTHER, AND THE EVER-STAUNCH FRIEND OF GADABOUT, THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED.

This volume was formerly published under the title, "Houseboating on a Colonial Waterway"; but its appropriateness for inclusion in the [ "See America First Series" ] to represent the State of Virginia is so obvious that the publishers have, in this new edition, changed the title to "Virginia: The Old Dominion," and reissued the book in a new dress, generally uniform with the other volumes in the series.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

  1. [ ALL ABOUT GADABOUT]
  2. [ OUR FIRST RUN AND A COZY HARBOUR]
  3. [ LAND, HO! OUR COUNTRY'S BIRTHPLACE]
  4. [ A RUN AROUND JAMESTOWN ISLAND]
  5. [ FANCIES AFLOAT AND RUINS ASHORE]
  6. [ IN THE OLD CHURCHYARD]
  7. [ SEEING WHERE THINGS HAPPENED]
  8. [ PIONEER VILLAGE LIFE]
  9. [ GOOD-BYE TO OLD JAMES TOWNE]
  10. [ A SHORT SAIL AND AN OLD ROMANCE]
  11. [ AT THE PIER MARKED "BRANDON"]
  12. [ HARBOUR DAYS AND A FOGGY NIGHT]
  13. [ OLD SILVER, OLD PAPERS, AND AN OLD COURT GOWN]
  14. [ A ONE-ENGINE RUN AND A FOREST TOMB]
  15. [ NAVIGATING AN UNNAVIGABLE STREAM]
  16. [ IN WHICH WE GET TO WEYANOKE]
  17. [ ACROSS RIVER TO FLEUR DE HUNDRED]
  18. [ GADABOUT GOES TO CHURCH]
  19. [ WESTOVER, THE HOME OF A COLONIAL BELLE]
  20. [ AN OLD COURTYARD AND A SUN-DIAL]
  21. [ AN UNDERGROUND MYSTERY AND A DUCKING-STOOL]
  22. [ A BAD START AND A VIEW OF BERKELEY]
  23. [ THE RIGHT WAY TO GO TO SHIRLEY]
  24. [ FROM CREEK HARBOUR TO COLONIAL RECEPTION]
  25. [ AN INCONGRUOUS BIT OF HOUSEBOATING.]
  26. [ THE END OF THE VOYAGE]
  27. [ INDEX]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

[ THE PORTICO OF BRANDON, FROM THE GARDEN]
(In full color) [ (See page 119) ] Frontispiece

MAP OF THE JAMES RIVER FROM RICHMOND TO ITS MOUTH

THE HOUSEBOAT GADABOUT