Washington, Character of . . . . James Madison
Washington's Farewell to the American People, 1796,

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Washington's Mother When a Girl..
Washington's Mother at the Peace Ball
Washington's Speech in Congress on his Appointment as Com-
mander-in-Chief, 1775. .
Washington, Memorial Address in Congress, 1800, by Henry Lee, 124

George Washington

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

Captain John Smith..

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Rescue of Captain Smith by Pocahontas

Jamestown, Va. The first permanent English settlement in

Fort Moultrie, S. C. Fort Sumter in the Distance

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Star-Spangled Banner and Seal of the United States

Scene in Louisiana . .

John Caldwell Calhoun and His Home.

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"Woodlands," the Home of W. Gilmore Simms.

University of Texas (Main Building), Austin..

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State Capitol of North Carolina.

Tomb of Mary, the Mother of Washington, Fredericksburg, Va.

General T. J. Jackson (Stonewall) .

Mt. Mitchell, N. C. Above the Clouds. .

Grady Monument, Atlanta, Ga. . .

Agricultural and Mechanical College of Mississippi.

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Mississippi Industrial Institute and College for Girls. . Oppo. 446

CAPTAIN John Smith, the first writer of Virginia, was born at Willoughby, England, and led a life of rare and extensive adventure. "Lamenting and repenting," he says, “to have seen so many Christians slaughter one another," in France and the Lowlands, he enlisted in the wars against the Turks. He was captured by them and held prisoner for a year, but escaped and travelled all over Europe. He finally joined the expedition to colonize Virginia, and came over with the first settlers of Jamestown in 1607. His life here is well known; he remained with the colony two years. He afterwards returned to America as Admiral of New England, but did not stay long. He spent the remainder of his life in writing accounts of himself and his travels, and of the colonies in America.

True Relation (1608).

Map of Virginia (1612).

Description of New England (1616).
New England's Trials (1620).

Accidence for Young Seamen (1626).

WORKS.

Generall Historie of Virginia, New Eng land, and the Summer Isles (1624).

True Travels (1630).

Advertisements for Inexperienced Planters of New England (1631).

Captain Smith's style is honest and hearty in tone, picyuresque, often amusing, never tiresome. It is involved and ungrammatical at times, but not obscure. The critics have professed to find many inaccuracies of historical statement;

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