A hand book of Virginia . forest and of water. Historically, they go back to the days of John Smith, of Poca-hontas, and of the cavaliers; to Jamestown, where Englishcivilization was first permanently planted in America, and toWilliamsburg; to her House of Burgesses, where the first faint cryof liberty and equality was heard within her borders; to thoseimmortals, Washington, Jefferson, and Henry, and to their illus-trious compeers who by their words, their acts, their devotionand their blood, gave both force and effect to that cry, electrifyinga subservient world by the boldness of their chall
A hand book of Virginia . forest and of water. Historically, they go back to the days of John Smith, of Poca-hontas, and of the cavaliers; to Jamestown, where Englishcivilization was first permanently planted in America, and toWilliamsburg; to her House of Burgesses, where the first faint cryof liberty and equality was heard within her borders; to thoseimmortals, Washington, Jefferson, and Henry, and to their illus-trious compeers who by their words, their acts, their devotionand their blood, gave both force and effect to that cry, electrifyinga subservient world by the boldness of their challenge to thehaughty English king, whose proud minions meeting theirWaterloo at Yorktown, there surrendered both their liberty andan empire to the victorious American army. This section is divided by the waters of the Chesapeake Bay,and the large tidal rivers that flow into that great estuary, intonine principal and a large number of secondary peninsulas. Thisis mainly an alluvial country, a portion of the tertiary Atlantic. 29 tidewater plain, and its surface, composed of sands and clays, isthrown into low, flat ridges, forming the watershed of the penin-sulas, succeeded by terraces and plains down to the waters edge,where they meet the swamps and salt marshes that always accom-pany well-developed, land-locked, tidal waters. This is the clay,marl, and sand region. The natural resources of this section are unsurpassed. Herwaters, upon which float the mighty ships of both war and trade,abound with fish, oysters, clams and crabs, ready to be convertedinto food for her people and into gold for their purses. Uponthese waters and in her marshes, millions of water-fowl and wildbirds feed and have their resting places. The curlew, willet, gray-back, sea robin, mudhen and sora are her marsh birds. Of herwaterfowl, the teal, water goose, brant, canvas back and blackmallard; of her land game, wild deer, squirrels, rabbit, woodcockand quail. Winter and summer resorts of both health and plea
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