Excerpt from Address on the Religious History and Character of the Puritans, by R. W. Thompson: Delivered Before the New England Society of Terre Haute, Indiana, December 20, 1868 About that time, in the year 1616, there was published in London a description of New England, by Captain John Smith, who had visited it two years before, with a map of the country which some of you will recollect, as I exhibited it to you at the formation of your Pilgrim Society two years ago. This is a curious book, well worthy of perusal, not only on account of its quaint old English style, but to show what ideas then prevailed of the geographical extent of this coun try. For example, it says: New England is that part of America in the Ocean Sea opposite to Nova Albyon in the South sea; discovered by the most memorable Sir Francis Drake in his voyage about the world. In regard whereto this is styled New England, being in the same latitude. New France, off it, is N orthward. Southward is Virginia. 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.