compelled by Spotswood to take their passage in a man-of-war just then returning. Whilst all these disturbances were going forward, North Carolina increased greatly in population. Disturbances, in fact, in these young American states, seem to have been merely like the ebullitions of vigorous youth, which grows in spite of them, and through which all their powers are brought into exercise. In 1698, the first settlements were made on Pamlico River, the Indians of that vicinity having been nearly destroyed by fever and the ravages of war with more powerful tribes. In 1707, a number of French Protestants removed into Carolina from Virginia; and a few years later, a hundred German families from the Palatinate, whence they were driven by the devastations of war and religious persecution, found a home there also, 250 acres of land being assigned by the proprietaries to each family. The Revolution produced no ill effects in Virginia. Francis Nicholson, who in the reign of James had been expelled from New York by the insurgents, was the first governor of Virginia under William III.; and Andros, “fresh from imprisonment in Massachusetts,” was the second. To Nicholson Virginia was indebted for the establishment of the College of William and Mary, which was endowed by a gift of quit-rents from the king and a royal domain, and by a tax of a penny on every pound weight of tobacco exported to the other colonies. To Andros it owes the preservation of what few annals of the province had escaped the destruction of neglect, time and civil war.