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" This land lay stretching itself to the West, which after we found to be but an island of twenty miles long, and not above six miles broad. "
Parley's Magazine - Page 89
1837
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The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the ..., Issue 8

Richard Hakluyt - Discoveries in geography - 1904 - 544 pages
...Isle °f those hilles next adjoyning, being but of meane higth, ffr°^onand from thence wee behelde the Sea on both sides to the North, and to the South, finding no ende any of both wayes. This lande lay stretching it selfe to the West, which after wee found to bee...
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The Great Events by Famous Historians: A.D. 1558-1608

Charles Francis Horne, John Rudd - Literary Criticism - 1904 - 444 pages
...written. We passed from the sea side toward the tops of those hills next adjoining, being but of mean1 height; and from thence we beheld the sea on both...west, which after we found to be but an island of twenty miles long and not above six miles broad. Under the bank or hill whereon we stood we beheld...
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History from 458 A. D. to 1909, Volume 1

Benson John Lossing - History - 1905 - 586 pages
...towardes the toppes of those hillee next adjoyning, being but of meane higth, and from thence wee behelde the Sea on both sides to the North, and to the South, finding no ende any of both wayes. This lande laye stretching it selfe to the West, which after wee found to bee...
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Voyages of the Elizabethan Seamen

Henry Frowde, M.A., Edited by Edward John Payne with Notes by C. Raymond Beazley - 1907 - 486 pages
...be written. We passed from the sea side towards the tops of those hills next adjoining, being but of mean' height; and from thence we beheld the sea on...west, which after we found to be but an island of twenty miles long, and not above six miles broad. Under the bank or hill whereon we stood, we beheld...
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History of North Carolina: From 1584 to 1783

Samuel A'Court Ashe - North Carolina - 1908 - 824 pages
...grapes, etc. We passed from the seaside towards the tops of those hills next adjoining, but being of mean height, and from thence we beheld the sea on...the West, which after we found to be but an island twenty miles long and not above six miles broad. We remained by the side of this island two whole days...
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American History Told by Contemporaries..., Volume 1

Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1910 - 636 pages
...towardes the toppes of those hilles next adioyning, being but of meane higth, and from thence wee behelde the Sea on both sides to the North, and to the South, finding no ende any of both wayes. This lande lay stretching it selfe to the West, which after wee found to bee...
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Harper's Encyclopędia of United States History from 458 A.D. to ..., Volume 1

Benson John Lossing - United States - 1909 - 580 pages
...towardes the toppes of those hilles next adjoyning. being but of meane higth, and from thence wee behelde the Sea on both sides to the North, and to the South, finding no ende any of both wayes. This lande laye stretching it selfe to the West, which after wee found to bee...
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The Conquest of Virginia: the First Attempt: Being an Account of Sir Walter ...

Conway Whittle Sams - Roanoke Colony - 1924 - 974 pages
...are told they "passed from the seaside towards the tops of those hills next adjoining, being but of mean height, and from thence we beheld the sea on...ways. This land lay stretching itself to the West," etc. This helps us materially. The coast at Ocracoke runs North- 1584 east and Southwest. They would...
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The Oxford Book of English Prose

Arthur Quiller-Couch - English prose literature - 1925 - 1266 pages
...be written. We passed from the sea side towards the tops of those hills next adjoining, being but of mean height ; and from thence we beheld the Sea on...West, which after we found to be but an Island of twenty leagues long, and not above six miles broad. Under the bank or hill whereon we stood, we beheld...
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The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery

Padraic Colum - America - 1925 - 214 pages
...queen's most excellent majesty, we passed from the sea-side to the tops of the hills adjoining; looking from thence we beheld the sea on both sides to the north and to the south, with no end either way. The land we were on stretched towards the west; we found it to be, not a mainland,...
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