[259] See my Discovery of America, i. 167-169.

[260] Hawks, History of North Carolina, ii. 72.

[261] Lawson, A Description of North Carolina, London, 1718, p. 73.

[262] Rivers, Early History of South Carolina, Charleston, 1856, p. 96.

[263] Williamson, History of North Carolina, Philadelphia, 1812, p. 120.

[264] Williamson, op. cit. i. 121.

[265] Moore’s History of North Carolina, Raleigh, 1880, i. 18.

[266] I am glad to find this opinion corroborated by Professor Bassett in his able paper above cited, J. H. U. Studies, xii. 109.

[267] Hawks, History of North Carolina, ii. 470.

[268] See above, p. 85 of the present volume.