Some Account of Camden's Rise and Growth (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Some Account of Camden's Rise and Growth He must be painstaking, indeed, who can glean anything from the field of history wherein Isaac Mickle, Dr. Fisler and Judge Clement have gathered, and I can only hope, that in collecting under one head widely scattered information, I may be able to refresh your knowledge of some of the local history of our good city. In 1618 Lord De La Warr, sailing along the Atlantic coast on his return to Virginia from England, died at sea opposite the mouth of "a goodly and noble river, " which, as a perpetual monument to his memory, forever indicating the place of his death, was thence called the Delaware. Sailing up this broad river in 1631, noting the creeks and estuaries emptying into it, the Dutch commander, De Vries, discovered, about one hundred miles from its mouth, on the eastern shore, a large thickly wooded island, which he called Jacques Eylandt. The Swedes, coming some seven or eight years after, observing the same isle, with much better taste called it by its Indian name, Aquikanasra. Upon that island we are gathered to-night. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.