Daily Richmond times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1849-1850, 1850-05-08
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From the Nepark Daily Advertiser.
The PRINCETON MAGAZINE for May opens, with an
interesting chapter OF "reminiscences OF Patrick Henry
by the venerable DIR. Alexander, which we shall shorty
transfer to columns We are also lndebed TO Tor
account OF the recent arrival in England OF Vaua-
BILE old work the settlement and early i1sloY OF VIZ
ginia by the Hakuyt Society in Eng and This work,
which appears to have been compiled two centuries
ago by William Strachey the first Secretary OF the Co.
the association referred to- The Hakuyt Society the
reviewer tells u.s. established tor the purpore OF
printing rare or unpublished voyages and Travels and
the volumes produced are distributed among the mem
beers alone The President of the Society is Sir Rode
rick lmpey Murchson, and that among its active
bers are Vice Admiral Sir Charles Malcolm, DR.. Whe
well, Master Of Trinity College Cambridge, Sir Henry
The volumes already published include Sir Richard
Hawkinss Voyage to the South Sea in 1893; Sir Wal
ter Raleighs Discovery OF the Empire OF Guiana; Sir
Francis brakes Voyage in 1895; and a selection from
neded manuscripts in the British Museum, concerning
the Northwest Passage. Among the publications con-
templaed may be named Frescobad9s Travels in Egypt
and Syria in 1884; Behencourts Discovery of the Ca
nary Isles 1885, and Virginia in the years 1884 to
1000, from narratives Of Arthur Barlow, Ralf Lane,
and Thomas Harriet. 1t is evident on the bare reading
OF these titles that historians and anquares have
son to expect much satisfaction in regard to points hi
therto left in darkness. The article in the Magazine
adds
"The value of the book before US is derived from the
particular eventfu period to which it relates, the
lion OF the author and the fact that it has lain unpubsh
ed more than centuries. The author OF
sober and observing mind, and OF great learning after
the model OF King James 1t is evident that he intend
ed to m axe great work, of which these two books
are only the beginning
To Hakuyt, says Robertson England is more in
debed for its American possessions than to any OF
that age'' yet so far we know, not hamlet
bears his name, while we have of Washngtons,
Jacksons, Cassvies, and Taylorsburgs. 1t was Hak
luyts activity and entreaes which led King James to
grant the patent of April TO- 1906 for the settlement of
two plantations on the coast of North America.
Strachev, we have said, was gentleman and scho-
lar 1t has been strangely imagined by some that the
boeSes Not % T Rs and SMITH, ss take
leave add the of Master Hunt, the first chap
lain of George Sandys, who made his translation of
Ovid in Virginia, as he says in his dedication to King
Charles, in 1852; and Of Thomas Hario named above,
who after his return mmortalzed himself by his work,
AriS Analyicoe Praris This contains the genesis OF
all equations by the continued multiplication of simple
equations; step needed to complete the progress OF
Vieta and Gerard He observed the spots the
early December, 1910, not more than month after
Calico Harlots manuscripts are preserved in the col
lection of the Earl of Egremont.
The narrative OF Strachey must have been written
before 1916 appears from the title given to Sir Fran
els Bacon in the dedication. Two manuscripts exist,
one in the British Museum, and one in the Ashmoeon
out by R. H Major, Esq, F. R. G. S., Honorary Sc
creary of the Society 1t is embeished with etchngs
by Mrs Major; comprising fac simies of signatures,
Capt. Smiths map the same which appears in DIR.
Rces neglected but patriorc edition. and several spr
ted illustrations from de Bry. 1t has also copious
glossary of Indian words, which is invaluable to the
comparative philoogist. Apropos OF the last article,
for flat loaf of bread, is found in the aboriginal
dpOne aponeS, bread baked in the ashes Check
niquamin, miniature chestnut is plainly the chlnque-
pin OF infant recoectous the caStaea pumiLla OF
Michaux. Tocko6houghis an esculent root, retained
in the of creeks in Virginia and in New Jersey,
we'll as in the cant term Tuckahoe which sportively
desgnates the people OF lower Virginia; while the cor
relative appeaton of the up-country Scotch-lrish in
Cohee, as is said, from their use OF the phrase quoh
he, or quo he. Asapan, or hasty pudding the su-
pd,cn or mush, of Jersey Pess,nins are persim-
mons, diOSpgrOs VlTeinldnd L. 4uScdScuS is the mus
quash
The first book contains the geography and topical de-
scrip,iop; with full and graphic account of Powhatan
and his realm Some of the accounts of Poeahontas
in her grlhood peculiarly amusing and unexpected
nor dare we copy them Then follows minute pic
ture of manners and customs, certainly equal anything
we have ever read on this head. As compared with
Smith, we observe Stacheys superior ability writer
though pedantc in ancient citations he IS clear and Tor
his time neat in language; and his account bears the
marks of as to the marvellous which is want
ing in that OF the great captain. The only specimen OF
Indian lyric is found on the 18th page; it is satire
on the white men, rdiculing their ideas of pain, and
knocking at their swords and fireocks.
The second book occupies itself with the early DISCO
very, and is overladen with good amount OF unsea-
sonabe erudition concerning Columbus, Vespucus and
Cabot, Raleigh, and Drake. 1t will, however, add
materially the of future collections, regard
to some important periods and dates. The notices,
moreover are not confined to South Virginia, but
tain much about the Northern Colony on the river Sa
dachehock and the adventures of Sir John Popham.-
The period occupied by Stracheys history ranges
1910 1911 and 1912 and this brings very near to the
first permanent colonization, which will be remembered
was in 1907 1t be compared with the map Of Vir-
gina published by the w. Strachey, at Oxford in
1872
*No Virgnian needs the information, that the trad-
tona pronunciation OF Powhatan lays the accent on the
last syllable Ignorance of this has spoiled quite
pretty verses concerning the Indian King 1t may be
added that the old settlers write Pocahuntus as the
is still universally pronounced among her descendants