WHICH INLET DID THEY ENTER? 45 



sound between a line of islands parallel to the coast, one of 

 which was Roanoke ; but, as New Inlet was not open at 

 that time, and the river Nomopam, on which stood "Chawa- 

 nook" does not fall into Roanoke Sound, this theory fails. 

 Mr. Abort,!!. S. Civil Eng. follows Bancroft, and to provide 

 a river Occam, he connects Alligator River with long Shoal 

 River making one long river of them, but the same objec- 

 tion affects his river as that of Hawks' ; he also fails to 

 convince himself that Roanoke Island is seven leagues only 

 from Ocracoke Inlet ; most probably his mistake arises 

 from confounding Pomeiock, a town on Albemarle Sound 

 (at or near Edenton) with Pomouik, near Secotan, on or 

 near Mattamuskeet Lake ; other authors place the entrance 

 of Amadas and Barlowe at either Ocracoke or Hatteras 

 Inlet. John W. Moore, in his history of North Carolina, 

 published in 1880, places the entrance at Trinity Harbor 

 "nearly opposite Roanoke Island" ; this last is the nearest 

 of any to what the writer considers the facts, but as the 

 inlet entered was seven leagues from Roanoke Island, 

 Gaffey Inlet was in all probability the place of entrance. 



SOME CHANGES IN THE COAST LINE SINCE 1584. 



Mr. Abert, U. S. Civil Eng., in the Table of Condition 

 of Inlets, in his report to War Dept. in 1876, says the in- 

 let known as Hatoraskin 1590, New in 1738, Guntin 1775, 

 Gant in 1795, is the same as that known on U. S. C. Sur- 

 vey chart of 1875 as Oregon : in this he is evidently mis- 

 taken, if we may rely on the evidence of the U. S. C. Survey 

 office, that Oregon Inlet was opened in 1846. In the same 

 table, the Hatteras Inlet of to-day is given as being iden- 

 tical with that of 1585 ; but the evidence of R. R. Quidley 

 and other residents of Hatteras, must be taken as conclu- 

 sive, that the present Hatteras Inlet was also opened in 

 1846. He also says : 



