Early History of the Southern States

Excerpt from The Early History of the Southern States: Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia This patent purported to authorize Raleigh, and his heirs and assigns forever, to discover and colonize all such remote and barbarous lands as were not actually possessed by any Christian prince or people. All such lands and colonies, however, were to be forever subject to the English crown, and to pay to it a fifth part of all gold and silver which should be obtained. The English had, at this time, great expectations from the wealth of America; for the discoveries and adventures of the Spanish and Portuguese, in the southern half of the continent, had inżamed the avaric'e and the ambi tion of all Europe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.