[43] Discourse of Thomas Hariot, Hakluyt’s Voyages, 3:326.
[44] Smith’s History of Virginia, 1:122 (1629) Reprint 1819.
[45] Works of Capt. John Smith, p. 502.
[46] Bruce, Philip Alexander. Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century, Vol. 1:219. 1896.
[47] Report of Francis Maguel, Spanish Archives, Brown’s Genesis of the United States: 395. 1610.
[48] The History of Travaile into Virginia: 120. 1610, printed 1849.
[49] Anonymous. A Perfect Description of Virginia. 1649, Peter Force’s Tracts, Vol. II, 1838.
[50] “Grape vines of the English stock, as well as those of their own production, bear most abundantly, if they are suffered to run near the ground, and increase very kindly by slipping; yet very few have them at all in their gardens, much less endeavor to improve them by cutting or laying. But since the first impression of this book, some vineyards have been attempted, and one is brought to perfection, of seven hundred and fifty gallons a year. The wine drinks at present greenish, but the owner doubts not of good wine, in a year or two more, and takes great delight that way.
“When a single tree happens in clearing the ground, to be left standing, with a vine upon it, open to the sun and air, that vine generally produces as much as four or five others, that remain in the woods. I have seen in this case, more grapes upon one single vine, than would load a London cart. And for all this, the people till of late never removed any of them into their gardens, but contented themselves throughout the whole country with the grapes they found thus wild.” Beverly, Robert. The History of Virginia: 260. 1722, Reprint, 1855.
[51] “Will fox,” i. e. intoxicate. See footnote on [page 4].