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I. ATLANTIS For the original narrative of Socrates, see Plato's "Timaeus" and "Critias," in each of which it is given. For further information see the chapter on the Geographical Knowledge of the Ancients by W. H. Tillinghast, in Winsor's "Narrative and Critical History of America," I. 15. The Welsh bard himself is supposed to have flourished in the sixth century.
For the founding of the several colonies, their charters, etc., the student may profitably consult the learned monographs in Winsor's Narrative and Critical History of America, 8 vols., Boston, 1886-89. A popular account, quite full in details, is given in Lodge's Short History of the English Colonies in America, N. Y., 1881.
There was perhaps just a suspicion of exaggerated nonchalance about their gait and bearing a regimental weakness, possibly and no other officer save Lieutenant Field happened to be within earshot when Winsor's voice on the other front was heard in hoarse command: "Come back there, you fellows! Back or you're goners!" The sight had proved too much for some of the Sioux.
Taking this first century as a whole, the general reader cannot do better than look up the third volume of Justin Winsor's Narrative and Critical History of America and the first volume of Avery's History of the United States and its People . Both give elaborate references to documents and books, but neither professes to be at all expert in naval or nautical matters, and a good deal has been written since.
DIRECT AND INDIRECT GOVERNMENT. The transition from direct to indirect government, as illustrated in the gradual development of a township into a city, may be profitably studied in Quincy's Municipal History of Boston, Boston, 1852; and in Winsor's Memorial History of Boston, vol. iii. pp. 189-302, Boston, 1881. Section 2.
The whole appeared something like a Camp; for the Bowers looked like Tents, only being larger and covered with Palmetto Leaves."* * Moore's "Voyage to Georgia". Quoted in Winsor's "Narrative and Critical History of America", vol. V, p. 378. Their life sounds idyllic, but it will not always be so. Thunders will arise; serpents be found in Eden.
Brandan's, but the latter was afterwards supposed to lie southeast of them. After the discovery of the Azores various expeditions were sent to search for St. Brandan's until about 1721. It was last reported as seen in 1759. A full bibliography will be found in Winsor's "Narrative and Critical History," I. p. 48, and also in Humboldt's "Examen," II. p. 163, and early maps containing St.
But those who have ever bathed in Green Cove Spring, near Magnolia, on the St. John's River, will be ready to testify that, had he but stayed there longer, he would have found something to recall his visions of the Fountain of Youth. For the statement as to the lingering belief in the Jacquet Island, see Winsor's "Columbus," p. 111.
VI, Part 11, of Winsor's "Narrative and Critical History of America," p. 721. We gathered on the western skirts of the village to give Bowman's company a cheer, and every man, woman, and child in the place watched the little column as it wound snakelike over the prairie on the road to Fort Chartres, until it was lost in the cottonwoods to the westward. Things began to happen in Kaskaskia.
VI, Part 11, of Winsor's "Narrative and Critical History of America," p. 721. We gathered on the western skirts of the village to give Bowman's company a cheer, and every man, woman, and child in the place watched the little column as it wound snakelike over the prairie on the road to Fort Chartres, until it was lost in the cottonwoods to the westward. Things began to happen in Kaskaskia.
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