COPYRIGHT 1905 BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

FOUR HUNDRED AND FORTY COPIES PRINTED

NUMBER

(339; handwritten)
(signature of Bruce Rogers; graphic designer of this book)

CONTENTS

Giovanni da Verrazano, 1524
Narragansett Bay[1]
David Ingram, 1568
Maine[25]
Bartholomew Gosnold, 1602
Buzzard’s Bay[31]
Martin Pring, 1603
Plymouth Harbour[51]
Samuel de Champlain, 1605
Maine and Massachusetts[65]
George Waymouth, 1605
St. George’s River[99]
George Popham and Ralegh Gilbert, 1607
Kenebeck River[153]
Henry Hudson, 1609
Penobscot and the Fishing Banks[177]
Samuel Argall, 1610
Penobscot Bay[193]
John Smith, 1614
Monhegan[211]
Thomas Dermer, 1619
Maine and Cape Cod[249]
Christopher Levett, 1624
York and Portland[259]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

John Smith’s Map of New England[Frontispiece]
From Smith’s Description of New England, London, 1616. (Reduced)
Facsimile Title-page of Brereton’s Briefe and True Relation[32]
This book, published in 1602, gives an account of the voyage of Bartholomew Gosnold, and is the earliest book in English relating to New England
Map of Port St. Louis (Plymouth Bay)[52]
From Champlain’s Voyages, 1613 Edition
Map of the Mouth of the Kennebec[66]
From Champlain’s Voyages, 1613 Edition
Facsimile Title-page of Rosier’s True Relation[100]
This book, published in 1605, gives an account of the voyage of George Waymouth, and is the second book in English relating to New England
Facsimile Title-page of Smith’s Description of New England, 1616[212]
It is in this book that the name “New England” first occurs, being substituted by Captain Smith for “North Virginia”