Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The First University in America, 1619-1622: An Address Delivered by W. Gordon McCabe, President of the Virginia Historical Society, Before "the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Virginia," May 31, 1911, at Dutch Gap on James River
All but three centuries ago the New World renaissance had its birth, an event among the most important in the his tory of Virginia. Held close to its heaving breast, and em circled. By the jealous arms of this noble river, here it was that the cradle of our infant learning was suspended.
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