Initial Studies in American Letters
Initial Studies in American Letters
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nial Virginia, and of the southern colonies which
took their point of departure from Virginia, is almost wholly of this
historical and descriptive kind. A great part of it is concerned with
the internal affairs of the province, such as "Bacon's Rebellion," in
1676, one of the most striking episodes in our ante-revolutionary
annals, and of which there exist a number of narratives, some of them
anonymous, and only rescued from a manuscript condition a hundred years
after the event. Another part is concerned with the explorations of
new territory. Such were the "Westover Manuscripts," left by Colonel
William Byrd, who was appointed in 1729 one of the commissioners to fix
the boundary between Virginia and North Carolina, and gave an account
of the survey in his History of the Dividing Line, which was printed
only in 1841. Colonel Byrd is one of the most brilliant figures of
colonial Virginia, and a type of the Old Virginia gentleman. He had
been sent to England for his education, where he was admitt
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