The history and antiquities of Boston .. . that Capt. Bartholomew their true descriptions are concealed, or neuer Gosnold had printed an account of Eliza- well obserued, or died with the authors : so that beth lies, and that Capt. Waymouth had the coast is yet still but euen as a coast vn- printod another of Pemmaquid, he says, From knowne and vndiscouercd. I have had six or all these diligent obseruers, posterity may be seauen seuerall plots of these northern parts, so bettered by the fruits of their labours. But for vnlike each to other, and most so differing from diuers others that long bef
The history and antiquities of Boston .. . that Capt. Bartholomew their true descriptions are concealed, or neuer Gosnold had printed an account of Eliza- well obserued, or died with the authors : so that beth lies, and that Capt. Waymouth had the coast is yet still but euen as a coast vn- printod another of Pemmaquid, he says, From knowne and vndiscouercd. I have had six or all these diligent obseruers, posterity may be seauen seuerall plots of these northern parts, so bettered by the fruits of their labours. But for vnlike each to other, and most so differing from diuers others that long before and since haue any true proportion, or resemblance of the coun- ranged those parts, within a kenning sometimes trey, as they did mee no more good, than so of the shore, some touching in one place, some mucli waste paper, though they cost me more. in another, I must entreat them pardon me for —Smith, Descrip. of N. E., 1616, p. 3. omitting them ; or if I offend in saying that f Smith, ii. 174. 1614.] SMITH S VOYAGE TO NEW ENGLAND. 19. JOHN SMITH. But, with all these honest intentions, Smith had his calumniators— those who affected to sneer at his undertakings. Of them, how-ever, he had vastly the could not only hold them upto contempt in his own day, butthere they remain posted for alltime to come in his imperishableHistoric, writ with his ownehand. His traducers, he says,were such persons as could not say their compasse, yet wouldtell what all England is by seeingbut Milford Haven.* What time Smith sailed on hisfirst voyage to New England, hedoes not state in his first publica-tion of the account of it, but hesays, In the moneth of April,f1614, at the charge of Capt. Mar-maduke Roydon, Capt. George Langam, Mr. John Buley and WilliamSkelton, w4th two ships from London, J I chanced to arriue at Monahiganan He of America, in of northerly latitude : our plot was there totake whales, for which we had one Samuel Crampton and diners othersexpert in that facul
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