22 VIRGINIA CARTOGRAPHY. 



The letter was carried to England by Captain Newport, who 

 sailed from Virginia in November, 1608, reaching there in Jan- 

 uary, 1609. 



The map and relation mentioned in the letter requires some 

 discussion. 



In 1 61 2 was printed at Oxford — a most unusual event — a 

 pamphlet, without a map, with this title: "A map of Virginia. 

 With a Description of the Coventrey." The map was published 

 previous to the text above-mentioned, which describes the map. 

 This is proved from the following extracts from " Purchas his 

 Pilgrimage, fol. London, 161 3," page 634, and entered at Sta- 

 tioner's Hall, August 7, 1612.* 



It^'is well to notice these dates, so that the application of the 

 following quotations from the above volume can be appreciated: 



" Concerning the latter. Captain lohn Smith, partly by word 

 of mouth, partly by his Mappe thereof in print, and more fully 

 by a manuscript which hee courtiously communicated to mee, 

 hath acquainted mee with that whereof himselfe with great perill 

 and paine, had been the discouerer, being in his discoueries 

 taken prisoner, and escaping their furie, yea receiving much 

 honour and admiration among them, by reason of his discourses 

 to them of the motion of the Sunne, of the parts of the World, 

 of the Sea, etc. which was occasioned by a Dyall then found 

 about him. They carried him prisoner to Powhatan, and there 

 beg"anne the English acquaintance with the Sauage Emperour." 



And again from the same work on page 635 : 



" To speake of Powtuxent, Bolus and other Rivers on the 

 East side of the Bay: likewise of diuers places which received 

 name by some accident, as Fetherstones Bay, so called of the 

 death of one [of] ours there happening, and the like; or to men- 

 tion the numbers which euery people can make, would exceede 

 our scope, and the Readers patience. Captaine Smiths Mappe 

 may somewhat satisfie the desirous, and his booke when it shall 

 bee printed, further. This the Captaine saith, that hee hath 

 beene in many places of Asia and Europe, in some of Africa and 



* The first edition of Purchas was called Purchas his Pilgrimage. It is 

 an entirely different work from his larger collection of Pilgrimes. The dis- 

 tinction between the two works is explained by the author himself in the 

 dedication prefixed to the 4th edition of the " Pilgrimage." 



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