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of New England :

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THE OBSERVATIONS, AND DISCOUERIES, of Captain John Smith (Admirall of that Country) in the North of America, in the year of our Lord 1614: with the successe of sixe Ships, that

went the next yeare 1615; and the acci-
dents befell him among the French
men of warre:

With the proofe of the present benefit this
Countrey affoords: whither this present yeare,
1616, eight voluntary Ships are gone
to make further tryall.

At LONDON

Printed by Humfrey Lownes, for Robert Clerke; and
are to be sould at his house called the Lodge,
in Chancery lane, ouer against Lin-
colnes Inne. 1616.

[For an account of Captain John Smith's adventurous and romantic life, the reader is referred to Belknap's American Biography, Vol. I., to Sparks's American Biography, Vol. II., and to his own personal narrative, published in 1630, under the title of True Travels, Adventures, and Observations in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, from 1593 to 1629. This work was reprinted at Richmond, Virginia, in 1819, in two volumes octavo.

Mr. Rich, in his Catalogue of Books relating to America, says of Smith's Description of New-England, that "this is the first book published which speaks of NEW-ENGLAND, previously called North Virginia.

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Publishing Committee.]

Because the Book was printed ere the Prince his Highness had altered the names, I entreat the Reader peruse this schedule, which will plainly show him the correspondence of the old names to the new.

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