Laird & Lee's guide to historic Virginia and the Jamestown centennial ..Full statistics and itinerary .. . an hour! As soon as King Charles II heard of this he restoredIn Mrs. Drummond her husbands property which thegovernor had confiscated. That old fool, said Charles II, has hanged moremen in that naked country than I did for the murderof my father! Owing to the fever, which seemed prevalent so muchof the time, it was decided to abandon the site atJamestown and remove the seat of government to Wil-liamsburg, which was done in 1699, the year after theburning of the State-House. The waters of
Laird & Lee's guide to historic Virginia and the Jamestown centennial ..Full statistics and itinerary .. . an hour! As soon as King Charles II heard of this he restoredIn Mrs. Drummond her husbands property which thegovernor had confiscated. That old fool, said Charles II, has hanged moremen in that naked country than I did for the murderof my father! Owing to the fever, which seemed prevalent so muchof the time, it was decided to abandon the site atJamestown and remove the seat of government to Wil-liamsburg, which was done in 1699, the year after theburning of the State-House. The waters of the James River have long since con-verted the peninsula into an island. Fire and sword,pestilence and famine have done their work, and onlyruins remain to mark the site of historic old James-town, but the struggles and sufferings of the earlycolonists were not unavailing, for after Jamestowncame Williamsburg, which first fanned the flames ofthe Revolution leading to the glorious victory at York-town and the subsequent birth of the American Re-public. CHAPTER II. HAMPTON ROADS, THE GATEWAY OF BATTLESHIPS ON HAMPTON ROADS Certainly, the most historic body of water in theUnited States, Hampton Roads, is also, perhaps, themost beautiful harbor on the Atlantic coast. In shape,it is an isosceles triangle, eleven miles long on oneside and nine miles in length on the other two sides,forming an area of about fifty square miles, shelteredby the Virginia coasts, connecting Chesapeake Baywith the Atlantic Ocean. Into this vast body of waterflow the Elizabeth, Nansemond and James Rivers,the latter being four miles vide at its mouth. A glance at the birds-eye view on page 20 willshow the exact location of these streams, with thecities bordering the shores of the Roads. The watersare deep enough for the largest war vessels built andextensive enough to manoeuvre the largest fleet by Cape Henry and Cape Charles, WilloughbySpit and Old Point; provided with one of the
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