The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-01-14

/ NSAS' III 1AA PAop1piAlSs DIS lsHOidllC OIL
| the true site OF Powhatan as all the
compilers of our colonial history after
| Smith
Lord North disliked history, because
he always doubted It's truth. Anything
but that. he said to his daughter, who
was about to read to him chapter in
an historical work. Professor Peabody,
once OF the North American Review, was
as skeptical as the English statesman,
as infer. from neat pun he once made
to me as a reply to the question: What
do you think Of Buckles History OF Eng
land?' 1T is his story
Original Description.
will now give the original description
of the site of Powhatan in order to
enable the reader to compare that YER
sion with it's variations by others:
Newport, Smith, and twenty others,
were sent to discover the head of the
river. By divers small habtations they
passed In six days they arrived at
towne called Powhatan. consisting of
some twelve houses, pleasantly seated
on hill Before it three fertile isles.
About 1t many of their cornfields. The
place is very pleasant and strong by ma
ture. OF this place the prince is called
Powhatan. and his people Powhatans
highsr6 within nyle. by reason of the
Rockies and Isles, there is not passage
for O small Boat. This they called the
Falles." See Book 3. chapter l. page 151,
Travels. Etc, of Captain John Smith,
etc. Richmond; reprint from the London
edition of 1929.
II my discovery OF the true site of
Powhatan shall prove correct, the south
east bluff of Richmond Fill. now known
and called by the name OF Chimborazo
Park. should be hereafter designated,
IN accordance with an understanding of
its original or native title.
Evidence of Glaciers.
The accompanying sketch OF that sec
tion of the valley OF the James, taken
several years ago will enable the OBJ,
server to compare the relative positions
OF the objects embraced within and
without the rivers Significant horseshoe.
All those picturesque heights which met
the gaze OF tho adventures with Smith,
and Newport were anciently one with tho
adjoining plain over which the old river
ran many centuries ago. They have been
detached from their adhesion to tho
larger mass by tho persistent action of
water It is this wearing process which
has given the present historic river the
BStodl CIIN5 IitLS6 WITH DOOR
ability reproduced In the sketch. At one
time 1t ran by the site OF Richmond as
straight as the arrow flies. have
traced Its shore lines on the right and
on the left bank as far up stream as
Mannlkin in Gooohland. and as Fine
Creek In Powhatan, The presence of
boulders ut all elevations of tho primary
and secondary terraces inclines me to
think that the glacier has been as active
in Virginia as In other parts further
North, No glaolalist who views that
marvellous group of water-worn stones at
Wesson's. near Fine Creek will pronose
for their origin other theory than glacid-
ton, They iie as 1t were on the edus
of tho great upper shore line OF the
southside. upwards of one hundred feet
above the James at that polnt-of ercr-
NOUS size. too-a dump of tho ice-raft-s
compared with which tho multitudinous
bouldors found near the foot of the fnlls
in the lowgrounds and high grounds Of
Richmond and Manchester are pigrnies.
IS Eefoye nd Disgusting briefly Smiths de-,
,ssSSFtpta99r IN ,pESSsation o. the Indian