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" You must observe if you can, whether the river on which you plant doth spring out of mountains or out of lakes. If it be out of any lake, the passage to the other sea will be more easy, and [it] is like enough, that out of the same lake you shall find... "
The English Colonization of America During the Seventeenth Century - Page 12
by Edward Duffield Neill - 1871 - 352 pages
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Life in Old Virginia: A Description of Virginia More Particularly the ...

James Joseph McDonald - 1907 - 436 pages
...and that the country was rich in minerals. Therefore one reads such instructions as the following : " You must observe, if you can, whether the river on...of any lake, the passage to the other sea will be more easy, and is like enough that out of the same lake you shall find some spring which runs the contrary...
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American History

James Alton James, Albert Hart Sanford - 1909 - 602 pages
...building fortifications. The instructions of the London Company to the settlers included the following: "You must observe if you can whether the river on...it be out of any lake the passage to the other sea [the Pacific Ocean] will be the more easy. . . ." Following these instructions Smith made a series...
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Readings in American History

James Alton James - 1914 - 606 pages
...assist any nation that shall come to invade you; and if you neglect this you neglect your safety. . . . You must observe if you can, whether the river on...of any lake, the passage to the other sea will be more easy, and it is like enough that out of the same lake you shall find some spring which runs the...
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Bulletin of the Virginia State Library, Volume 9

Virginia State Library - 1916 - 380 pages
...munitions; but first let Captain Newport discover how far that river may be found navigable, * * * . You must observe If you can, whether the river on which you plant doth spring out of the mountains or out of lakes. If it be out of any lake, the passage to the other sea will be more...
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Pioneers of the Old South: A Chronicle of English Colonial Beginnings

Mary Johnston - 1918 - 310 pages
...entrance of a navigable river. They shall be prepared against surprise and attack. They shall observe "whether the river on which you plant doth spring...passage to the other sea will be the more easy, and like enough . . . you shall find some spring which runs the contrary way toward the East India sea."...
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Supervised Study in American History

Mabel Elizabeth Simpson - 1918 - 312 pages
...found so frequently on these pages. The pupils will be interested to know that the sentence quoted, " You must observe, if you can, whether the river on which you plant doth spring out of the mountains or of lakes," etc., is quoted from the paper of instructions prepared by Hakluyt for...
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American History

James Alton James, Albert Hart Sanford - 1919 - 658 pages
...building fortifications. The instructions of the London Company to the settlers included the following: "You must observe if you can whether the river on...which you plant doth spring out of mountains or out of lakea. If it be out of any lake the passage to the other sea [the Pacific Ocean] will be the more easy....
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History of Tazewell County and Southwest Virginia: 1748-1920

William Cecil Pendleton - 1920 - 728 pages
...of the boughs of trees." In the written instructions given by the London Council was one which said: "You must observe if you can whether the river on...the passage to the other sea will be the more easy." The minds of the best informed men of England, as well as of Continental Europe, still clung to the...
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History of Tazewell County and Southwest Virginia: 1748-1920

William Cecil Pendleton - 1920 - 726 pages
...of the boughs of trees." In the written instructions given by the London Council was one which said: "You must observe if you can whether the river on...plant doth spring out of mountains or out of lakes. If tt be out of any lake the passage to the other sea will be the more easy." The minds of the best informed...
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