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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. Capt. John Smith, famous for m, romantic career, particularly the p,'. cahontus episode. Is genernlly jSil ciated with Virginia, ' but he was asil the first to discover the beuutlcs (,' the southwestern half of the Mais-coast Mais-coast and the first to draw a nain 0 it, an exchange recalls. In 1014 he W-plored W-plored the shores of what was it,, known as North Virginia, but he called New England, a nttmc it; has stuck, as have manv others htD by him. In "A Description of New ErdanC pr'ited in London in lGlfi, sia;j wrote "I have seen at least forty s-erall s-erall habitations on (lie Sea Coast tit! found about 25 excellent good tar bors. and more than 200 is! From Penobscot to Sagadahock th:i Coast is. all Mountainous arid IsUs . f huge Rocks, but overgrown with c sorts of good woodes for builJii: bouses, boats, barks or sliippes: i; an Incredible abundance of must son! of fish, much fowle and sundry sura of good fruites for man's use ' 1 The Salvages compare their store li the Sea to the haires of their heads; and surely there are an incrediw abundance upon this Coast. ' 1 The most Northern part I was at to the Bay of I'enobscot, which is Ea1 and West, North and South, more thai ten leagues." The northeastern half of the Main' roast was nut on the map by C.m plain. Ten yenrs before Smith's forage for-age he had visited Nova Scotia, discovered dis-covered and named the St. John rim, ail cruised as far south as the mnnii of the Penobscot, which he, too, entered. |