Here were forest and stream, Indian and bear and wolf, blue waters of sound and sea, long outward lying reefs and shoals and islets, fertile soil and a clime neither hot nor cold.

Slowly the people increased in number.

Families left settled Virginia for the wilderness; men without families came there for reasons good and bad.
Their cabins, their tiny hamlets were far apart; they practised a hazardous agriculture; they hunted, fished, and traded with the Indians.
The isolation of these settlers bred or increased their personal independence, while it robbed them of that smoothness to be gained where the social particles rub together.

This part of South Virginia was soon to be called North Carolina.
Far down the coast was Cape Fear.

In the year of the Restoration a handful of New England men came here in a ship and made a settlement which, not prospering, was ere long abandoned.