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Show GAVE NAME TO NEW ENGLAND Result of Capt. Smith's Exploration of Shores of "North Virginia" in the Year 1614. dipt. John Smith, famous for his romantic career, particularly tlio I'o-,cti I'o-,cti lion t tis episode, is generally associated asso-ciated Willi Virginia, but he was also the first t discover the beauties of t lie southwestern half of the Maine icnast anil the first to draw a map o( It, an exchange recalls. In 1014 he explored ex-plored the shores of what was then known as North Virginia, but which lie culled New Kngland, a name that has stuck, ns have many others given tiv him. In "A Description of New Kngland," prfcited In London in MilfJ, Smith wrote "I have seen at least forty several sev-eral tmbltiitlons on the Sea Coast and found about Ufi excellent good harbors. har-bors. and more than 200 Isles. From I'enobscot to Sngudahock this Coast Is all Mountainous and Isles of huge Rocks, but overgrown with all torts of good woodes for building houses, boats, harks or shlppes: with an Incredible abundance of most sorts of fish, much fowle and sundry sorts of good frultes for man's use The Snlvages compare their store in the Sea to the halres of their heads; and surely there are an Incredible abundance upon this Coast. The most Northern part I was at was the Hay of Penobscot, which is East end West, North and South, more than ten leagues." The northeastern half of the Maine ronst was nut on the map by Cham-plain. Cham-plain. Ton years before Smith's voyage voy-age he had visited Nova Scotia, discovered dis-covered and named the St. John river, nd cruised as far south as the mouth of the Penobscot, which he, too, en- tnrpfl |