VIRGINIA CARTOGRAPHY. 



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" Ould Virginia and new." The Potomac river at its mouth is 

 called " Maryland River," and the CaroHnas " Rawliana." At 

 the top of the map is a medallion portrait of Sir Francis Drake, 

 and underneath the text: "Sir Francis Drake was on this 

 sea and landed An*^ ^S77 i^ 37 ^^g. where hee tooke Possession 

 in the name of Q. Eliza: calling it new Albion. Whose happy 

 shoers (in ten dayes march with 50 foote and 30 horsemen from 

 the head of leames River, ouer those hills and through the rich 

 adjacent Vallyes beautyfied with as proffitable rivers which nec- 

 essarily must run to peacefuU Indian sea,) may be discovered to 

 the exceeding benefit of Great Brittain, and joye of all true 

 English." 



In the right corner is the title: "A mapp of Virginia dis- 

 couered to ye Hills, and in it's Latt: From 35 deg: & ^ neer 

 Florida, to 41 deg: bounds of new Englands. John Goddard 

 sculp. Domina Virginia Farrer Collegit. Are sold by I. Steph- 

 enson at ye Sunn below Ludgate: 165 1." 



I have not been able to see an original copy of this map, so 

 my knowledge of it is from a facsimile published in Justin Win- 

 sor's Narrative and Critical History of America, vol. 3, p. 465. 



About all we know of Virginia Farrer is that she was the 

 daughter of John Farrer and niece of Nicholas Farrer, of Little 

 Giddings fame, and at one time connected with the London 

 Virginia Company. She remained a spinster, and died January 

 17, 1687. Besides the map of Virginia, she seems to have iden- 

 tified herself with the culture of the silk-worm. Her writings 

 on this subject are embodied in a compilation of Samuel Hartlib, 

 entitled " The reformed Virginia silk-worm, or, a rare and new 

 discovery of a speedy way, and easie means, found out by a 

 young lady in England, she having made full proof thereof in 

 May Anno 1652. London, 1655." 



The Farrer family, who formed a little colony unto themselves 

 in " Little Giddings," Huntingdonshire, England, seem to have 

 occupied themselves at various literary pursuits, and to this early 

 training Virginia Farrer was indebted for much miscellaneous 

 information. 



The following is from the " Dictionary of National Biog- 

 raphy," in the notice of Nicholas Farrer: " It was one of Farrer's 

 principles that every one should learn a trade, and the trade 



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