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1605,removed to the mainland, situated on the opposite side of the Bay, where the French founded their first permanent settlement, which they named Port Royal.

The scenery and situation of the colony were admirable. The erecting of habitations and clearing the forest rapidly advanced, as did also the erection of a fortress and mounting of cannon, for the native savages were very numerous, but they subsequently proved to be friendly and received the French with the cordiality of old acquaintances ; hence that friendship and amity between them has never been broken or disturbed.

Meanwhile the sound of the woodman’s axe was heard, and when a sufficient clearance was attained the adventurers planted seed provided in France, determined to remain, risk their fortune and end their days. Soon, however, the English came and disturbed them, claiming the country in virtue of its having been discovered by Cabot in I497.

In the far 03 region of Virginia, an English settlement was founded in 1607, named Jamestown. In 1613—eight years after the French had settled in Acadia, now known as Nova Scotia—an armed ship, commanded by one Captain Argall, from Jamestown, entered the haven of Port Royal and captured a French armed vessel after a short combat, killing and wound- ing most of the crew. Argall made a prisoner of the Governor of the colony, who he charged with being a freebooter and pirate; he then destroyed the fortress and dwellings of the settlers, after which he sailed for Virginia, taking the Governor and other officials as prisoners along with him. The settlers who had been to the fields tilling their lands during the attack, returned to the ruins of their homes, which in time they re stored to a state of comfort, and resolved to hold the fort.

But other enemies, equally dangerous and troublesome, established themselves much nearer than were the Virginians. During the year 1620, a number of people from England seek- ing homes in the new continent arrived and founded a settle- ment, denominated Plymouth, a few degrees south of Port Royal. This was the origin of the New England Colonies, of which mention will be further on.

Meanwhile many thousand emigrants had been drawn from the Mother Country in order to people the wilderness of New France. Along on the south-west coast of Newfoundland,

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