"Pioneers of the Old South: A Chronicle of English Colonial Beginnings" by Mary Johnston. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
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Mary Johnston. Pioneers of the Old South: A Chronicle of English Colonial Beginnings
Pioneers of the Old South: A Chronicle of English Colonial Beginnings
Table of Contents
PIONEERS OF THE OLD SOUTH
CHAPTER I. THE THREE SHIPS SAIL
CHAPTER II. THE ADVENTURERS
CHAPTER III. JAMESTOWN
CHAPTER IV. JOHN SMITH
CHAPTER V. THE "SEA ADVENTURE"
CHAPTER VI. SIR THOMAS DALE
CHAPTER VII. YOUNG VIRGINIA
CHAPTER VIII. ROYAL GOVERNMENT
CHAPTER IX. MARYLAND
CHAPTER X. CHURCH AND KINGDOM
CHAPTER XI. COMMONWEALTH AND RESTORATION
CHAPTER XII. NATHANIEL BACON
CHAPTER XIII. REBELLION AND CHANGE
CHAPTER XIV. THE CAROLINAS
CHAPTER XV. ALEXANDER SPOTSWOOD
CHAPTER XVI. GEORGIA
THE NAVIGATION LAWS
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
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Mary Johnston
Published by Good Press, 2019
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But for many a year Virginia itself was the only settlement and the only name. This Virginia was a country favored by nature. Neither too hot nor too cold, it was rich-soiled and capable of every temperate growth in its sunniest aspect. Great rivers drained it, flowing into a great bay, almost a sea, many-armed as Briareus, affording safe and sheltered harbors. Slowly, with beauty, the land mounted to the west. The sun set behind wooded mountains, long wave-lines raised far back in geologic time. The valleys were many and beautiful, watered by sliding streams. Back to the east again, below the rolling land, were found the shimmering levels, the jewel-green marshes, the wide, slow waters, and at last upon the Atlantic shore the thunder of the rainbow-tinted surf. Various and pleasing was the country. Springs and autumns were long and balmy, the sun shone bright, there was much blue sky, a rich flora and fauna. There were mineral wealth and water power, and breadth and depth for agriculture. Such was the Virginia between the Potomac and the Dan, the Chesapeake and the Alleghanies.
This, and not the gold-bedight slim neighbor of Cathay, was now the lure of the Susan Constant, the Goodspeed, and the Discovery. But those aboard, obsessed by Spanish America, imperfectly knowing the features and distances of the orb, yet clung to their first vision. But they knew there would be forest and Indians. Tales enough had been told of both!
