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A38817 A direction for adventurers with small stock to get two for one, and good land freely and for gentlemen and all servants, labourers, and artificers to live plentifully : and the true description of the healthiest, pleasantest, and richest plantation of new Albion in North Virginia proved by thirteen witnesses : together with a letter from Master Robert Evelin, that lived there many yeares, shewing the particularities and excellency thereof ... Evelyn, Robert, 17th cent. 1641 (1641) Wing E3524; ESTC R3540 5,992 10

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