 Which being performed, according to the ceremonies used in such enterprises, we viewed the land about us, being, whereas we first landed, very sandie and low towards the waters side, but so full of grapes, as the very beating and surge of the sea overflowed...  Parley's Magazine - Page 881837Full view - About this book
 | Justin Winsor - America - 1884 - 618 pages
...language of the report to Sir Walter, — "very sandie and low towards the water's side, but so ful of grapes, as the very beating and surge of the sea overflowed them, of which we found such plentie, as well there as in all places else, both on the sand and on the greene soile on the hils... | |
 | American Historical Association - History - 1891 - 542 pages
...the North Carolina coast on the fourth day of July, OS, 1584.' They found the land low and sandy, " but so full of grapes as the very beating and surge of the sea overflowed them." At the discharge of a harquebus a flock of cranes arose with such a cry as if an army of men had shouted... | |
 | John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Henry Phelps Johnston, Martha Joanna Lamb, Nathan Gillett Pond - United States - 1893 - 608 pages
...far from Roanoke island. "We viewed the land about us, being, whereas we first landed, very sandie and low towards the water side, but so full of "grapes,...of the sea overflowed them, of which we found such plentie, both on the sand and on the greene soile on the hils, as well on every little shrubbe, as... | |
 | 1893 - 452 pages
...being, whereas we first landed, very sandie and low towards the water side, but so full of grapesj as the very beating and surge of the sea overflowed them of which we found such plentie, both on the sand and on the greene soile on the hils, as the character of the coast, its fauna... | |
 | North Carolina. Department of Agriculture - North Carolina - 1896 - 572 pages
...then an unbroken wilderness, the author tells us, in most graphic language of the abundance of grapes: "so full of grapes as the very beating and surge of the sea overflowed them." Upon the visit of the voyagers to the house of the Indian King, on Roanoke Island, wine was set before... | |
 | History - 1897 - 348 pages
...far from Roanoke island. ' 'We viewed the land about us, being, whereas we first landed, very sandie and low towards the water side, but so full of grapes,...of the sea overflowed them, of which we found such plentie, both on the sand and on the green soil on the hills, as well as on the hills, as well on every... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee - Great Britain - 1900 - 642 pages
...we viewed the land about us, being, whereas we first landed, very sandy and low towards the water's side, but so full of grapes, as the very beating and surge of the sea overflowed them. . . . most part white) arose under us, with such a cry redoubled by many echoes, as if an army of men... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee - Great Britain - 1900 - 650 pages
...we viewed the land about us. being, whereas we first landed, very sandy and low towards the water's side, but so full of grapes, as the very beating and surge of the sea overflowed them. . . . We passed from the sea side towards the tops of those hills next adjoining, being but of mean... | |
 | United States - 1902 - 588 pages
...we viewed the land about us, being, whereas we first landed, very sandie and low towards the waters side, but so full of grapes, as the very beating and...of the Sea overflowed them, of which we found such plentie, as well there as in all places else, both on the sand and on the greene soile on the hils,... | |
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