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diction that, "forofmnch as merchants arc diligcjU itiquhitors after gains ^ 

 theijivUlsoon remove their trade from Ncirfoundland'''' to New England, where 

 there is a better climate, greater security against the depredations of 

 pirates, and less expense for outfits, shorter voyages, and safer harbors. 

 The writer, anticipating that a colony would soon be founded, predicted 

 further, that the ships o{' all \he nations that "have been accustomed to 

 repair unto the Newfoundland l()r the commodity of fish and oils alone, 

 will lienceforth forsake" that island, "when once we have planted 

 people in these parts ; by whose industry shall be provided, for all com- 

 merce," the products of the sea, "and many commodities besides, of 

 good importance and value." Eighteen years elapsed; the Pilgrims 

 anchored off the same "Shoal Hope," and settled this very country. 



Pring f()llowed Gosnold, and explored the waters of Maine, in 1G03. 

 He saw and named the Fox islands, in Penobscot bay, and found good 

 mooring and fishing. Like Gosnold, he considered the fish which he 

 took there superior to those of Newfoundland. He made a second 

 voj^age three j^ears later; and Gorges remarks that his discovery of 

 the eastern part of New England was perfect, and his account of it 

 accurate. 



Waymouth, under the patronage of several English noblemen, and 

 other persons of rank, came in IGOo. "A True Relation" of his ad- 

 ventures was written b}^ James Rosier, "a gentleman employed in the 

 voyage," and printed in London in the same year. He agrees wdth 

 those who had preceded him in every essential particular. As they 

 departed for England, they caught very large fish; and he says that 

 those on board of the ship, who were familiar with the business, "would 

 warrant, (by the help of God,) in a short voyage, w^A a few good fishers^ 

 to make a more jirofitahle return from hence than from Ncufoundland ; the 

 fish being so mnch greater, hetter fed, and abundance ivith train,'''' &c.* 



Two years after Waymouth's return, Lord .Jolni Pophain, chief jus- 

 tice of England, George Popham, his brother. Sir Ferdinando Goi-ges, 

 Sir John Gilbert, his brother Raleigh Gilbert, (who were nephews of 

 Sir Walter Raleigh, and, I suppose, sons of Sir Humphrey Gilbert, the 

 original patentee of Newfoundland,) with other gentlemen of consid- 

 eration, (h'terminfd to plant a colony in Maine, and near the fishing 

 grounds which, in the judgment of Pring and Rosier, promised so great 

 rcwarris to adventurers. George Popham was appointed the president, 

 and Raleigh Gilbert admiral of the expedition. The original design 

 was to settle in the immediate vicinity of the island of Monhegan, in 

 Penobscot bay; but, abandoning this plan, a small island was selected 

 nt the mouth of the Kennebec, where Popham and his associates 

 landed and commenced a settlement. SooU removing, however, to 

 the main land, they built a fort, and erected a storehouse and dwellings. 

 The death of the two Pophams and of Sir .Tolm Gilbert, the return of 

 Raleigh fJilbert to England, the loss of the storehouse by fire, and 

 other disappointments, discouraged the colonists, and put an end to the 

 enterprise. 



• With larger livers — of courae affording more oil. 



