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quotations, but the reader can judge for himself from the follow- 

 ing quotation from his catalogue mentioned above: 



" Also during the time of "the so-called second colony of Vir- 

 ginia, under the charge of John White, some explorations were 

 made. John White sailed from England on the 26th of April, 

 1587, and returned to England in November, 1587, leaving his 

 ' second Colony ' in the country, with the intention to bring them 

 supplies. 



" John White made afterwards another voyage to Virginia, to 

 look after his forsaken and unhappy colonists, which he left 

 there in 1587, without being able to return so soon. He set out 

 for this voyage from England on the 20th of March, and returned 

 to England on the 24th of October, 1590. On this voyage he 

 made no new explorations at all, and it is therefore very proba- 

 ble that the map of Virginia which is ascribed to him, and of 

 which we have still a copy, was prepared on the voyage of 1587. 



" Where the original draughts of this map of White remained 

 we cannot tell. But the first printed copy of it has been given 

 to the world by Theodore de Bry, in the work ' Admiranda. 

 Narratio, finde tamen digna de commodis et incolarum ritibus 

 Virginiae, etc., Francoforti ad Moenum. Anno MDXC ' — 

 (Wonderful relation, nevertheless very true, of the commodities- 

 and of the customs of the inhabitants of Virginia. — Frankfort- 

 on-Main, in the year 1590.) 



" The well known map in this book has the title •' Americae 

 pars nunc Virginia dicta, primum ab Anglis inventa sumtibus 

 Dni. Walteri Raleigh, Anno Dni. MDLXXXV,' etc.— (A part 

 of America now called Virginia, for the first time found by the 

 English, on the expenses of Sir Walter Raleigh, in the year of 

 our Lord 1585). 



" This map of the country which we now call North Carolina 

 is, by De Bry, put at the head of a collection of images, pictures 

 and sketches, on which he makes the following remark: 'Omnia 

 deligenter observata, et ad vivum expressa Joanne With ejus 

 gratia in illam provincian annis 1585 et 1588 misso. Deinde in 

 aes incisa et primum in lucem evulgata a Theodoro de Bry.' 

 (All this is accurately observed and after nature expressed by- 

 John With, who for the purpose was sent to that province in 

 the years 1585 and 1588. Afterwards it was engraved and, for, 

 the first time, published by Theodore de Bry.) 



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