=A.= MAPS OF VIRGINIA OR THE CHESAPEAKE.—There seem to have been visits of the Spaniards to the Chesapeake at an early day (1566-1573), and they may have made a temporary settlement (1570) on the Rappahannock. (Robert Greenhow in C. Robinson’s _Discoveries in the West_, p. 487, basing on Barcia’s _Ensayo Chronologico_; _Historical Magazine_, iii. 268, 318; J. G. Shea in Beach’s _Indian Miscellany_.) In the map which De Bry gave with the several editions of Hariot in 1590, the bay appears as “Chesepiooc Sinus;” but in the more general maps, shortly after, the name Chesipooc, or some form of it, is applied rather wildly to some bay on the coast, as by Wytfliet’s in 1597, or earlier still by Thomas Hood, 1592, where the “B. de S. Maria” of the Spaniards, if intended for the Chesapeake, is given an outline as vague as the rest of the neighboring coast, where it appears as shown in the sketch in chapter vi. between the Figs. 1 and 2. It may be, as Stevens contends (_Historical and Geographical Notes_), that not before Smith were the entangling Asian coast-lines thoroughly eliminated from this region; but certainly there was no wholly recognizable delineation of the bay till Smith recorded the results of the explorations which he describes in his _Generall Historie_, chs. v. and vi. Smith indicates by crosses on the affluents of the bay the limits of his own observations. Strachey’s _Historie of Travaile_, p. 42. In Smith’s _Map of Virginia, with a Description of the Country_, etc., Oxford, 1612, W. S., or William Strachey, eked out the little tract with an appendix of others’ contributions. Strachey afterwards adopted a considerable part in his _Historie of Travaile_. Mr. Deane, in his edition of the _True Relation_, p. xxi, has given a full account of this tract. Smith reprinted it in his _Generall Historie_ with some changes and additions and small omissions. Purchas reprinted it in his _Pilgrimes_, but not without changes and omissions of small extent, and with some additions, which he credits on the margin to Smith; and he had earlier given an abstract of it in his _Pilgrimage_. There is a copy of the original in the Lenox Library. Tyler, _American Literature_, i. 30, notices it.