More recent explorations to ascertain Waymouth’s anchorage are chronicled in the Boston Daily Advertiser, Aug. 23, 1879, and June 11, 1881.—Ed.]
[384] The writer has two sketches of the mountains as seen from Monhegan; yet the Maine Hist. Coll., vi. 295, inform the reader that “the White Mountains with an elevation above the level of the sea of 6,600 feet, being distant 110 miles, could not on account of the curvature of the earth be seen from the deck of the “Archangel,” even with a naked eye.”
[385] 3 Mass. Hist. Coll., viii. 122.
[386] The Historie of Travaile into Virginia Britannia; expressing the cosmographie and comodities of the country, togither with the manners and customes of the people, gathered and observed as well by those who went first thither, as collected by William Strachey, Gent. Edited by R. H. Major for the Hakluyt Society, London, 1849. p. 159.
[387] Œuvres, iii. 74. “Il nous dit qu’il y auoit un vaisseau à dix lieues du port, qui faisoit pesche de poisson, & que ceux de dedans auoient tué cinq sauuages d’icelle riuiere, soubs ombre amitié: & selon la façon qu’il nous despeignoit les gens du vaisseau, nous les lugeasmes estre Anglois, & nommasmes l’isle où ils estoient la nef: pour ce que de loing elle en auoit le semblance.”
[388] A True Relation of the most prosperous voyage made this present yeare, 1605, by Captaine George Waymouth, in the Discouery of the Land of Virginia: where he discouered 60 miles of a most excellent River; together with a most fertile land. Written by Iames Rosier, a Gentleman employed in the voyage. Londini, Impensis Geor. Bishop, 1605. [The copy of this tract in the Brinley sale, no. 280, was bought by Mr. C. H. Kalbfleisch, of New York, for $800. There are other copies in the New York Historical Society’s Library and in the private collection of Mr. S. L. M. Barlow.—Ed.]
[389] Purchas, iv. 1659.
[390] 3 Mass. Hist. Coll., viii. 125. Mr. Sparks procured a transcript of the Grenville copy, and this was used by the printer in this reprint.
[391] Pilgrimage, London, 1614, p. 756.
[392] A Brief Relation of the Discovery and Plantation of New England, London, 1622, pp. 2-4.