A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders . not dense forests. Never have I beheld a larger ormore beautiful river, wrote the priest; the Thames seems a mererivulet in comparison with it. The Ark and the Dove sailed up thebroad stream, while the shores at night blazed with the camp-fires ofthe Indians ; and the daylight revealed to the emigrants armed bands 1 A Relation of Maryland, toget
A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders . not dense forests. Never have I beheld a larger ormore beautiful river, wrote the priest; the Thames seems a mererivulet in comparison with it. The Ark and the Dove sailed up thebroad stream, while the shores at night blazed with the camp-fires ofthe Indians ; and the daylight revealed to the emigrants armed bands 1 A Relation of Maryland, together with a Map of the Country, etc., London, 1635. Sabinsreprint, edited by HawLs, New York, 1865. This contemporary record is second to FatherWhites in value as regards details. Its author is unknown. 492 VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND. [Chap. XVIII. hurrying to and fro, the tribes they believed mustering to resist theirlanding. Somewhat more than thirty miles from the rivers mouth lay agroup of islands, called the Herons Islands, from the great numberof those birds that flocked about them. They are known now as theBlackstone Islands, and in the two centuries that have elapsed, almostall of them have been washed away, a few only rising above the level. of flood tide. The first of these,long since reduced to a long, lowsandspit, hardly discernible above thewater, the voyagers named St. Clements,and chose as their first landing-place onMaryland soil. It had then a slopingshore, and cedars, nut-trees, sassafras, withflowers and herbs, covered the four hundred acres of dry land whichhave now so nearly disappeared. On March 25, the day of the An-nunciation of the Most Holy Virgin Mary, —an omen which theCeremonies pi^us emigrants did not fail to note, — they took possession ofon landing, ^j^^ couutry with solcmu ceremonies. After celebrating massupon the beach,i they followed their governor in reverent processionto the highest part of the island, where they planted a great cross of 1 Af
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