"Such, I say, were the general notions prevailing in England on the subject of colonial government during the period of the foundation and early development of our transatlantic colonies--the notions by which the practice of government was regulated--although I do not assert that they were framed into a consistent and logical theory. Perhaps we shall not be far wrong in regarding Lord Chatham as the last distinguished assertor of these principles, in an age when they had begun to be partially superseded by newer speculations."--Merivale _On Colonization_, vol. i., p. 102.] [Footnote 300: Hutchinson's _History of Massachusetts_, p. 94.] [Footnote 301: "In the spring of 1606, James I. by patent divided Virginia into two colonies. The _southern_ included all lands between the 34th and 41st degrees of north latitude. This was granted to the London Company. The _northern_ included all lands between the 38th and 45th degrees of north latitude, and was granted to the Plymouth Company. To prevent disputes about territory, the colonies were forbidden to plant within a hundred miles of each other. There appears an inconsistency in these grants, as the lands lying between the 38th and 41st degrees are covered by both patents. "In the month of August, 1615, Captain John Smith arrived in England, where he drew a map of the northern part of Virginia, and called it New England. From this time the name of Virginia was confined to the southern part of the colony."--Winterbottom's _History of America_, vol. iv., p. 165. See Bancroft's _History of the United States_, vol. i., p. 120.] [Footnote 302: Percy, in Purchas, iv., 1687.] [Footnote 303: "This celebrated scene is preserved in a beautiful piece of sculpture over the western door of the Rotundo of the Capitol at Washington. The group consists of five figures, representing the precise moment when Pocahontas, by her interposition, saved Smith from being executed. It is the work of Capellano, a pupil of Canova's."--Thatcher's _Indian Biography_, vol. i., p. 22. See Appendix, No. LXI., (see Vol II) for the History of Pocahontas.] [Footnote 304: Smith, in Pinkerton, xiii., 51-55. "The account is fully contained in the oldest book printed in Virginia, in our Cambridge library. It is a thin quarto, in black letter, by John Smith, printed in 1608."--Bancroft's _Hist. of the United States_, vol. i., p. 132.] [Footnote 305: In the year 1610, the South Virginian or London Company sealed a patent to Lord Delawarr, constituting him Governor and Captain-General of South Virginia. His name was given to a bay and river, and to the Indians who dwelt in the surrounding country, called in their own tongue Lenni-Lenape, which name signifies THE ORIGINAL PEOPLE. Lord Delawarr's health was ruined by the hardships and anxieties he was exposed to in Virginia, and he was obliged to return to England in little more than a year.]