[376] The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, made by Sea or over Land, to the most remote and fartherest distant quarters of the Earth, etc. Imprinted at London by George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, Deputies to Christopher Barker, Printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie, 1589. See further in the note following this chapter.—Ed.
[377] Virginia richly valued, By the description of the maine land of Florida, her next neighbor, etc., etc. London, 1609.
[378] [See Editorial note, B, at the end of this chapter, and the chapter on “The Cabots.”—Ed.]
[379] Hakluyt of Yatton. See Divers Voyages, ed. 1850, p. v. note.
[380] American Biography, ii. 135.
[381] Mr. McKeene in the Maine Hist. Coll., v. 307; Hist. Mag., i. 112.
[382] Maine Hist. Coll., vi. 291.
[383] Memorial Volume, published by the Maine Historical Society, p. 301. Other writers have treated the subject, or touched upon it in passing, and some from time to time have changed ground,—one blunder leading to another.
[Belknap had employed a well-known Massachusetts navigator, Captain John Foster Williams, to track the coast with an abstract of Rosier’s journal in hand. His theory, even of late years, has had some supporters like William Willis, in Maine Hist. Coll., v. 346. R. K. Sewall in his Ancient Dominions of Maine, 1859, and Hist. Mag., i. 188, follow McKeene; as does Dr. De Costa himself in the Introduction to his Voyage to Sagadahoc, and General Chamberlain in his Maine, her place in History. George Prince was the first to advocate the George’s River, and his views were furthered by David Cushman in the same volume of the Maine Hist. Coll. Prince, in 1860, reprinted Rosier’s Narrative, still presenting his view in notes to it.
This essay by Prince incited Cyrus Eaton, a local historian (whose story has been told touchingly by John L. Sibley in the Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., xiii. 438), to the writing of his History of Thomaston, Rockland, and South Thomaston, which he published at the age of eighty-one years, having prepared it under the disadvantage of total blindness. In this (ch. ii.) the theory of George’s River is sustained, as also in Johnson’s Bristol, Bremen, and Pemaquid, and in Bancroft. See p. 218.