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tion for and obtain a New Charter, dated
23d May, under the title of "The Treasurer
and Company of Adventurers of the City
of London for the first Colony of Virgi-
nia,"—to whom wtre granted in absolute
property the lands extending from cape or
"Point Comfort, along the sea coast two
hundred miles to the northward, and from
the same point two hundred miles south-
ward along the sea coast and up into the
land from sea to sea, west and north west,
reserving as before, one fifth of the- Gold
and silver that should be found The power
of the President and Council in Virginia,
was abrogated, and a new council consti-
tuted in England, with power to the com-
pany to fill up vacancies therein. This
council was authorised to make all laws
and appoint all officers for the colony.

In October Captain Smith, whose superior
judgment and intrepidity had repeatedly
retrieved the colony when all their affairs
seemed desperate, and who in character and
fortune seemed to resemble Columbus, his
great prototype in western enterprise, hav-
ing received an accidental wound, sailed for
England because unable to obtain the and of
a surgeon in the Colony. At his departure
the Colony consisted of 500 inhabitants;
having ten weeks provisions in store, six
mares and a horse, a large stock of hogs
and poultry, some sheep, goats, nets for