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drawings will show they are the works of an artist"; also that 

 " nothing is recorded of John White in modern dictionaries of 

 art and biography." 



Notwithstanding this, he takes it for granted that the artist 

 and the Governor are the same, and his views are accepted by 

 Justin Winsor. 



To conclude, all we know of John With or White is from De 

 Bry, who repeatedly calls him a " painter " and one '" sent thiter 

 speciallye " for the purjDose of making drawings of the natives 

 and other objects of interest. 



The tendency of the day is to consider most old writers as 

 given to statements not warranted by fact, but we should at 

 least give them the benefit of the doubt until the contrary is 

 proved. 



The rapidity with which men, especially navigators, achieved 

 fame in the days of Raleigh can only be compared with the 

 prornotion of French soldiers in the days of the first Napoleon, 

 Yet it is hardly probable, though of course possible, that a person 

 sent out especially for the purpose of his craft should, in a few 

 years, attain the position of commander in two expeditions and 

 become Governor of Virginia. So with all due deference to 

 the scholarly views of Kohl, Stevens, Winsor, Eggleston and 

 others, I find myself unable to agree with them as to the identity 

 of John With the artist and John White the Governor, until at 

 least further information on the subect is forthcoming. 



1597- 



From John With's map of 1585 to Capt. John Smith's map of 

 1608, I find only one map which has the name "Virginia" as 

 part of its title, viz. " Norvmbega et Virginia, 1597." This is 

 found following page 184 in Wytfliet's " Descriptionis Ptole- 

 maicse augmentum, fol. Lovanii, 1597." 



On pp. 182-183 is a description of Virginia, ending as follows: 

 " Sed de moribus & natura indigenarum, deque alijs Virginise 

 commoditatibus aut mirabilibus plura ex descriptione lohannis 

 Wyts, & relatione Thomae Harioti prgesati Rallegi domestici, 

 per Theodorum Brium singulari libro descripta, & seneis formis 

 incisa circumferuntur." 



