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Title: Virginia: The Old Dominion

Author: Frank W. Hutchins and Cortelle Hutchins

Release Date: March 27, 2004 [eBook #11731]

Language: English

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VIRGINIA: THE OLD DOMINION

As seen from its Colonial waterway, the Historic River James, whose
every succeeding turn reveals country replete with monuments and
scenes recalling the march of history and its figures from the days
of Captain John Smith to the present time.

By

FRANK AND CORTELLE HUTCHINS

With a map, and fifty-four plates, of which six are in full color,
from photographs by the authors.

1910

[Illustration: The Portico of Brandon, from the Garden.
(See page 119)]

TO
THE HONOURABLE FRANCIS E. HUTCHINS, THE FATHER OF ONE AUTHOR,
THE MORE THAN FATHER-IN-LAW OF THE OTHER, AND THE EVER-STAUNCH
FRIEND OF GADABOUT, THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED.

This volume was formerly published under the title, "Houseboating on a
Colonial Waterway"; but its appropriateness for inclusion in the "See
America First Series" to represent the State of Virginia is so obvious
that the publishers have, in this new edition, changed the title to
"Virginia: The Old Dominion," and reissued the book in a new dress,
generally uniform with the other volumes in the series.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. ALL ABOUT GADABOUT

II. OUR FIRST RUN AND A COZY HARBOUR

III. LAND, HO! OUR COUNTRY'S BIRTHPLACE

IV. A RUN AROUND JAMESTOWN ISLAND

V. FANCIES AFLOAT AND RUINS ASHORE

VI. IN THE OLD CHURCHYARD

VII. SEEING WHERE THINGS HAPPENED

VIII. PIONEER VILLAGE LIFE

IX. GOOD-BYE TO OLD JAMES TOWNE

X. A SHORT SAIL AND AN OLD ROMANCE

XI. AT THE PIER MARKED "BRANDON"

XII. HARBOUR DAYS AND A FOGGY NIGHT

XIII. OLD SILVER, OLD PAPERS, AND AN OLD COURT GOWN

XIV. A ONE-ENGINE RUN AND A FOREST TOMB

XV. NAVIGATING AN UNNAVIGAB