VIRGINIA CARTOGRAPHY. 



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reasonable to suppose from the following text, taken from some 

 of the other plates, that the author was the same as the artist: 



" Plate 2. The sea coasts of Virginia arre full of Ilads whereby 

 the entrance into the mayne lad is hard to finde. For although 

 they bee separated with diuers and sundrie large Diuision, which 

 seeme to yield conuenient entrance, yet to our great perill we 

 proued that they were shallowe, and full of dangerous flatts, 

 and could neuer perce opp. into the mayne lad, vntill we made 

 trialls in many places with or small pinness. At lengthe wee 

 found an entrance uppon our men diligent serche thereof, (etc.) 

 Such was our arriuall into the parte of the world, which we 

 called Virginia, the stature of bodee of which people, theyr attire, 

 and maneer of lyvinge, their feasts, and banketts, I will particu- 

 lerlye declare unto you." 



" Plate 17. And singinge after their maneer, they make merrie: 

 as myselfe obserued, and noted downe at my beinge amonge 

 them." 



" Plate 21. Thes poore soules haue none other knowledge of 

 god although I thinke them verye desirous to know the truthe. 

 For when as we kneeled downe on our knees to make our prayers 

 vnto god, they went abowt to imitate vs, and when they saw 

 we moued our lipps, they also dyd the like." 



" Plate 23. And to confesse a truthe I cannot remember, that 

 €uer I saw a better or quietter people than they. The marks 

 which I obserued amonge them, are heere put downe in order 

 followinge." 



To warn literary pirates from making use of his plates, De 

 Bry, in the preface " To the gentle Reader," very cunningly an- 

 nounced that " dyuers secret marks lye hidden in my pictures, 

 which wil breede Confusion vnless they bee well obserued." The 

 information on the title that it was " Translated out of Latin 

 into English by Richard Hacklvit," does not take away from 

 the proof that With was also the author of the text, as Latin 

 was a language in those days well known to scholars and artists. 



Now that I have given all there is in De Bry relating to the 

 painter John With, let us look into Hakluyt's " The Principall 

 Navigations," editions of 1589 and 1598, and note all passages 

 in which the name John White occurs. All the original reports 

 of the various expeditions sent out by Raleigh to Virginia, from 



