. American history:. pany sentout a colony of a hundred planters under the commandof George Popham. 5. They landed<= at the mouth of the Kennebec,*where they erected a few rude cabins, a store-house, andsome slight fortifications; after w^hich, the vessels sailed*for England, leaving forty-five emigrants in the plantation,which was named St. George. The winter was intenselycold, and the sufferings of the colony, from famine andhardships, were extremely severe. They lost their store-house by fire, and their president by death; and, in thefollowing year, abandoned the settlement and returned
. American history:. pany sentout a colony of a hundred planters under the commandof George Popham. 5. They landed<= at the mouth of the Kennebec,*where they erected a few rude cabins, a store-house, andsome slight fortifications; after w^hich, the vessels sailed*for England, leaving forty-five emigrants in the plantation,which was named St. George. The winter was intenselycold, and the sufferings of the colony, from famine andhardships, were extremely severe. They lost their store-house by fire, and their president by death; and, in thefollowing year, abandoned the settlement and returned taEngland. 6. ^Under the charter of the London Company, whichalone succeeded, three small vessels, under the commandof Captain Christopher Newport, sailed^ for the American!coast in December, 1606, designing to land and form asettlement at Roanoke. Pursuing the old route by theCanaries,^ and the West Indies,* Newport did not arriveuntil April; when a storm fortunately carried him northof Roanoke into Chesapeake OJ JAMESTOWN viaa * The Kennebec, a rirer of Maine, west of thePenobscot, falls into the ocean 120 miles N. E. fromBoston.—The place where the Sagadahoc colonif(as it is usually called) passed the winter, is in thepresent town of Phippsburg, which is composed ofa long narrow peninsula at the mouth of the Ken-nebec Kiver, having the river on th<! east. HillsPoint, a mile above the S. E. corner of the penin-sula, was the site of the colouy. t The Che!.apeake Bay, partly in Virginia, anclpartly in Maryland, is from 7 to 20 miles in width,180 miles in length from N. to S., and 12 mileswide at its entrance, between Cape Charles oa thaN. and Cape Henry on the S Part I.] NORTH AND SOUTH VUIGINIA. 137 7. Sailing along the southern shore, he soon entered a river which he named James River,* and, after passing about fifty miles above the mouth of the stream, \hesem^entthrough a delightful country, selected- a place for a settle- %m^ment, which was named Jame
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