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Excerpt from A Review of the Attempt to Manufacture Iron at Lynn and Braintree in Massachusetts and the Successful Enterprise at Taunton in the Old Colony
In 1607 the first permanent English colony in the New World was founded at Jamestown in Virginia by the Virginia Company of London, and on the roth of April in the following year, 1608, the company's ship, com manded by Captain Christopher Newport, sailed from Jamestown loaded with iron ore, sassafras, cedar posts, and walnut boards, and on the 20th of May it arrived in England. From Neill's history of the company we learn that the iron ore was smelted, and seventeen tons of metal were sold at 4 per ton to the East India Company. This was undoubtedly the first iron made by Europeans from American ore. In 1610 Sir Thomas Gates, who had spent some time in Virginia, testified before the council of the company, at London. That there were divers minerals, especially iron care, in Virginia, lying upon the surface of the ground, some of which ore, having been sent home, had been found to yield as good iron as any in Europe. The iron here referred to was that which had been sold to the East India Company. 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.
