. Virginia, the Old Dominion, as seen from its colonial waterway, the historic river James, whose every succeeding turn reveals country replete with monuments and scenes recalling the march of history and its figures from the days of Captain John Smith to the present time . cultivated acre along thestream; that had made the greatness of everyplantation home we had visited — and nowunknown among the products of the fertileriver banks! At last Gadabout was at the foot of thefalls and rapids. Like those first exploringcolonists we found that here the water fall-eth so i*udely, and with such a vio
. Virginia, the Old Dominion, as seen from its colonial waterway, the historic river James, whose every succeeding turn reveals country replete with monuments and scenes recalling the march of history and its figures from the days of Captain John Smith to the present time . cultivated acre along thestream; that had made the greatness of everyplantation home we had visited — and nowunknown among the products of the fertileriver banks! At last Gadabout was at the foot of thefalls and rapids. Like those first exploringcolonists we found that here the water fall-eth so i*udely, and with such a violence, asnot any boat can possibly passe. Of course there was a temptation to dowith our boat as the colonists once proposedto do with theirs — take her to pieces andthen put her together again above the falls, 292. THE VOYAGE ENDED. GADABOUT IN WINTER UUAKTEKS. THE END OF THE VOYAGE and so sail on up the old waterway to theSouth Sea and to the Indies. But the ex-ploring spirit of the race is not what it usedto be, and we simply ran Gadabout into aslip beside the disused canal and anchor went plump into the water, ma-king a wave-circle that spread and spreadtill it filled the whole basin — a great roundwater-period to end our river story. THE END. 293 INDEX Adams, 236. Alexander, Elizabeth, 166. Appomattox River, Tlie, 270. Association for tlie Preserva-tion of Virginia Antiquities,The, 48, 90. Back River, The, 32, 40. Bacon, Nathaniel, 46. Barney, Mrs. Edward E.,owner of Jamestown Island,48, 90. Berkeley, Lady Frances, 60. Berkeley, Sir William, 45. Berkeley (the estate), 109;home of elder branch ofHarrison family, 236; an-cestral home of a signer ofthe Declaration of Inde-pendence, and of two Presi-dents of the United States,236; plantation in 1776,237. Bermuda Hundred, villagefoun
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