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Excerpt from The Lower James: A Sketch of Certain Colonial Plantations
Bout three years ago, on a visit to tide water, Virginia, and in anticipation of the commemoration now in progress, I drove over from Williamsburg, the former capital of the Old Dominion, to renew my recollections of Jamestown. The ivy-covered porch and tower of the old church had long been familiar to me by repeated excursions up and down the James River, but not until this occasion had I cared to visit the historic ground. The reason of this was that until very recently there was absolutely nothing to be seen by closer ex amination that could not be observed from the deck of the passing steamer. A marshy low ground, over which at high tide the water backed, a few ancient crooked and gnarled trees, an uninviting aspect as of a forsaken and decayed settlement, discouraged nearer acquaintanceship.
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