Show HAD THEIR WASTING ROASTING EARS good proof f that aborigines were eating them when capt john smith arrived we do not know what the indrani called roasting ears but there Is no question that this was ono one of the principal articles of diet of the abor ivines when capt john smith and hla his fellow colonists established themselves in this virgin country A man who was born bom in maine and has hag lived all about said that the term was wai brot brat used I 1 in n now new england but we doubt that as the records would appear to show that we were making laws in virginia before the pilgrims landed at plymouth rock or thereabout there about one ona writer saying that the first legislative assembly that ever eon convened in the country was waa held in virginia sev enteen months before the eterna eternally lir lauded pilgrims ever landed lupoi plymouth rock and ten years before tho the colony of salem and boston increased their meager numbers beyond the hundred in doucen economic history story of virginia in the seventeenth leventi anth century page volume 1 we are ara told the tha custom which the indians followed in eating their meals was waa simple A mat was spread on the around and on this the dish was as placed the broiled flan fish ind roast roasting ng pani eara being laid near at hand again la in tha same book page there Is 19 this note in juno july and august they fed on fish bob the roots ot of the tuckahoe tuck aboe berries and roasting ears cars the chances are therefore then fora that tat corn which was so BO important an artt article of their diet was called roasting ears or the equivalent in the indian tongue as aa it Is reasonable to assume that they did nol not eat it raw or uncooked we are of the opinion that roasting ears to la a good vin ginia expression inasmuch us as in n clr virginia the white roan man first used corn on tile the table able or nat mat after the manner of the indians and as aa it was roasted before jt it was eaten the presumption ta Is that it ws called toasting roasting eari eara ll 11 the term appears to have hare blen used in virginia sinca the seventeenth cn cen byry avry and doub doubtless iless before there were abny ny dutch la in pennsylvania |