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THE CAROLINAS.
The first settlers on the banks of the James River, looking from beneath their hands southward over plain land and a haze of endless forests, called that unexplored country South Virginia.

It stretched away to those rivers and bays, to that island of Roanoke, whence had fled Raleigh's settlers.

Beyond that, said the James River men, was Florida.
Time passed, and the region of South Virginia was occasionally spoken of as Carolina, though whether that name was drawn from Charles the First of England, or whether those old unfortunate Huguenots in Florida had used it with reference to Charles the Ninth of France, is not certainly known.
South Virginia lay huge, unknown, unsettled.

The only exception was the country immediately below the southern banks of the lower James with the promontory that partially closed in Chesapeake Bay.