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Title: New York at the Jamestown Exposition, Norfolk, Virginia, April 26 to December 1, 1907
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: New York (State). Commission, Jamestown Exposition, 1907
Subjects: Jamestown Ter-centennial Exposition (1907) New York (State)--Exhibitions
Publisher: Albany, N.Y. : J.B. Lyon Co.
Contributing Library: Virginia Beach Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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om the West Indies, and saileddirectly for Virginia; but encountered a tempest of considerableseverity on May 1st, which carried them so far past the opening ofChesapeake Bay that they were forced to spend the succeeding fourdays in sounding their way back. Some writers assert that theywere blown into the bay by this storm, treating it in the light of anact of divinity, and others that they entered there merely to seekshelter, as in haphazard fashion; but the more reliable version isundoubtedly the former. Landing at Virginia. It was on Sunday, April 26th (May 6), at four oclock in themorning that the shore of Virginia was sighted, on which day the shipsentered Chesapeake (Chesapioc) Bay. The locality was describedas a scene of faire meadows and goodly tall trees, with such fresh-waters running through the woods, as I was almost ravished at thefirst sight thereof. That evening, whilst some of the party were ashore, Indiansattacked and wounded Captain Gabriel Archer and Matthew Morton,
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