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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
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ir bread and pre-pareing meat. I found they account after death to go into anotherworld, pointing eastward to the element; and, when they saw us atprayer, they observed us with great silence and respect, especiallythose to whom I had imparted the meaning of our reverence. Much Natural Wealth Sir Walter Cope, a member of the Kings Council of Virginia,wrote the most enthusiastic account, in fact it would seem that hemust have drawn upon his imagination or let his powers of exaggera-tion run wild. Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, was prime ministerat the time Captain Newport reached Plymouth, England, which wasAugust 8, 1607, and Cope wrote to him as follows, hoping to awakenan interest which would move him to back further expeditions. Right Honorable My Good Lorde — If we maye beleve etherin words or letters, we are falne upon a lande that promises morethen the lande of Promisse. Insteed of mylke we fvnde pearle —and golde insteedc of honye. Thus they say, thus they wryte — but AW
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SMITH VICTORIOUS The Captain takes the King of the Pamaunkees prisoner Jamestown Settlement 75 experyence the wysest Scoole-mistress must leade your Lordship,whose wysedom teaches to be of slow beleffe. Upon thys Tryall Ipresume you will buylde. Ther is but a barrell full of the earth,but ther semes a Kingdome full of the oare. You shall not be feddby handfulls or hatfulls, after the Tower measure, But the ElsabethJonas & the Tryumpe & all the ships of honor may here have theirbellyes full — for in all their fortyfycations, after two turfs of earth —This sparme or oare apearethe on every parte as a solid body, aTreasure endlesse proportioned by God acordinge to that Sufferaignesharte that rewards everyone & knows not how to say naye. I could wyshe your Lordship were at the tryall and if it shallbe as the proverb says aureos pollicere montes. Then that hisMajestie may undertake the honor of it and proportionate our sharesas in your wysedom may be thought fit.— If not,

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