A detailed study of the major currents of the English colonization of North America, beginning with the unsuccessful attempts to plant colonies, especially by Gilbert and Raleigh. There are separate chapters on each of the colonies from Virginia to Massachusetts Bay. This title is cited and recommended by Books for College Libraries and the Catalogue of the Lamont Library, Harvard College. At the time of original publication in 1904, Lyon Gardiner Tyler was President of William and Mary College.