An American history . n to choose a fit and convenient place for itsfirst settlement and to occupy thereabouts a region 100 miles square. TheLondon Company was required to locate somewhere between 34° and 41°; thePlymouth Company between 38° and 45°. Thus each was allowed a sphereof influence, as perhaps we might say, from which the other was ,while an intermediate area was open to both. See the admirable discussion inOsgood, Colonies, I. * Eastward Hoe, by Chapman, Marston, and Ben Jonson. It was acted inthe winter of 1604-1605. * Sent out by the London, or Virginia, Company. See not
An American history . n to choose a fit and convenient place for itsfirst settlement and to occupy thereabouts a region 100 miles square. TheLondon Company was required to locate somewhere between 34° and 41°; thePlymouth Company between 38° and 45°. Thus each was allowed a sphereof influence, as perhaps we might say, from which the other was ,while an intermediate area was open to both. See the admirable discussion inOsgood, Colonies, I. * Eastward Hoe, by Chapman, Marston, and Ben Jonson. It was acted inthe winter of 1604-1605. * Sent out by the London, or Virginia, Company. See note i, above. 26 THE BEGINNINGS OF VIRGINIA 27 peninsula that juts out into the James River. There theyfounded Jamestown, naming it for the new king, James I,who had succeeded Elizabeth. Seldom have hopeful dreamersmet with more crushing disappointment. Instead of goldencities and teeming mines like those of Mexico and Peru, theyfound only low stretches of alternate forest and river, millionsof mosquitoes, and naked.
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