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Sir Richard Grenville, could be none other than to explore the country, which he thus describes: βIt is the goodliest soil under the cope of heaven; the most pleasing territory of the world; the continent is of a huge and unknown greatness, and very well peopled and towned, though savagely. The climate is so wholesome that we have not one sick since we touched the land. If Virginia had but horses and kine, and were inhabited with English, no realm in Christendom were comparable to it.β The keenest observer was Hariot. He carefully
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George Bancroft (History of the United States of America, Complete Volumes 1-6: From the Discovery of the Continent)