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Excerpt from Virginia Dare
On the eastern shore of North Carolina, in the shallow sounds enclosed by long sand banks, which bound the coast, lies a little island twelve miles long and three miles broad.
This is Roanoke - the scene of the first English settle ment in this country, and the birth-place of Virginia Dare, the first English child born in America.
How much of romance, and yet more of history a xc mance of the real - clusters around the sad story of this young girl! Out of the unfortunate expeditions, of which she, in some sense, may be said to have been the first fruits, grew the schemes of colonization at Jamestown and at Ply mouth a score of years later. The seed were sown at Roanoke, were fertilized by the sacrifice of the settlers there, but took enduring root first at Jamestown.
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