| Show GAVE CAVE NAME TO NEW ENGLAND ai result 01 of f capt smiths exploration of Shir share ejof of north virginia in theY thoY par Far 1614 COPL capt john smith famous for his romantic career particularly the po ael episode sode Is s generally associated but bot he was also the first to discover the beauties of the ithe southwestern halt half of the maine coast avio the first to draw a map ol of it an exchange recalls in 1614 he explored the thores of what was then known as north virginia but which he called new england a name that has stuck as have many others given by ill hi hemf mf I 1 in A description of new england printed in london in 1016 smith wrote 1 I have seen at least forty sev arall habitations on the sea coast and found about 25 excellent good harbors 6 a a and n more le than isles from penobscot to this coast Is all mountainous red and isles of huge rocks but overgrown with nil all sorts orts of good woodes tor for building houses bouses boats barks or ship pes with an n incredible abundance of most sorts of fish much fowle and sundry sorts of good for mans vise use 4 the salvages compare their store in the sea to the chalres of their heads and nd surely aurely there are an incredible abundance abu fidance vipo n this const coast a Th The elmost most North northern rn part I 1 was at was the bay of penobscot which Is east and odyest nd west yest north and south more that than tn leagues 1 T the he north northeastern eastern halt half of the maine main roast coast wasi dut on the map by chem plain ten years year before smiths hg voyage he had tilted visited novil discovered lind and lamed named the st jolin john river ad cruised as far south iss as the mouth of the penobscot which he be too entered |
