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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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