Springs and autumns were long and balmy, the sun shone bright, there was much blue sky, a rich flora and fauna.

There were mineral wealth and water power, and breadth and depth for agriculture.

Such was the Virginia between the Potomac and the Dan, the Chesapeake and the Alleghanies.
This, and not the gold-bedight slim neighbor of Cathay, was now the lure of the Susan Constant, the Goodspeed, and the Discovery.

But those aboard, obsessed by Spanish America, imperfectly knowing the features and distances of the orb, yet clung to their first vision.

But they knew there would be forest and Indians.