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Excerpt from The Rending of Virginia, Vol. 4: A History The design of this volume is to tell the story of the severance of Virginia into two commonwealths, prefacing with some account of the causes leading up to the event: on the one hand, the internal antagonisms which had wrought towards disruption from an early day; on the other, the Southern Rebellion, which involving Virginia and setting up a military usurpation therein precipitated the crisis between the eastern and western sections that had been gathering head for fifty years. To this narrow estate has Virginia shrunken from an imperial domain. It is probable European eyes first beheld the lovely shores and waters of Virginia in 1498, when John Cabot is believed to have entered the Chesapeake Bay. In 1584, in the nebulous days of ante-colonial discovery and exploration, when the boundaries and limits of the New World were yet undefined and when European monarchs were claiming "everything in sight," Raleigh's ships returned to England with glowing accounts of the region from Albemarle to Chesapeake; and in the fervor of that triumphant hour, he was permitted to name all English North America "Virginia," in honor of the "Virgin Queen." The attempted colonization under the charter given Raleigh in that year to plant a colony in Virginia ended in failure. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.