which the reader, who has sufficient curiosity and patience will find, by perusing Mr. Lane's narrative of his Virginian adventures, printed in the Appendix, (N°. V). Of the prosecution of the adventure, the contemporary naval historian gives us the following account. The Third voyage made by a ship sent in the year 1586, to the relief of the colony planted in Virginia, at the sole charge of SIR WALTER RALEGH. • In the year of our Lord 1586, Sir Walter Ralegh, at his own charge, prepared a ship of an hundred tons, freighted with all manner of things in most plentiful manner, for the supply and relief of his colony then remaining in Virginia. But before they set sail from England it was after Easter, so that our colony half despaired of the coming of any supply; wherefore every man prepared for himself, determining resolutely to spend the residue of their life-time in that country. And for the better performance of this their determination, they sowed, planted,, and set such things as were necessary for their relief in so plentiful a manner as might have sufficed them two years without any farther labour. Thus trusting to their own harvest, they passed the summer till June 10th; at which time their corn which they had sowed was within one fortnight of reaping. But then it happened that Sir Francis Drake, in his prosperous return from the sacking of St. Domingo, Carthagena, and St. Augustine, determined in his way homeward to visit his countrymen the English colony then remaining in Virginia. So passing along the coasts of Florida, he fell in with the parts where our English colony inhabited; and having espied some of that company, there he anchored and went a-land, where he conferred with them of their state and welfare, and how things had passed with them. They answered him, that they lived all, but hitherto in some scarcity, and as yet could hear of no supply out of England. Therefore they requested him that he would leave with them some two or three ships, that if in some reasonable time they heard not out of England, they might then return themselves; which he agreed to. While some were then writing their letters to send into England, and some others making reports of the accidents of their travels each to other, some on land, some on board, a great storm arose, and drove the most of their fleet from their anchors to sea, in which ships at that instant were the chief of the English colony. The rest on land perceiving this, hasted to those three sail which were appointed to be left there; and for fear they should be left behind, they left all things confusedly, as if they had been chased from thence by a mighty army. And no doubt so they were, for the hand of God came upon them for the cruelty and outrages committed by some of them against the native inhabitants of that country. Immediately after the departing of our English colony out of this paradise of the world, the ship above-mentioned sent and set forth at the charge of Sir Walter Ralegh and his direction, arrived at Hateras, which after some time spent in seeking our colony up in the country, and not finding them, returned with all the aforesaid provision into England. • About fourteen or fifteen days after the departure of the aforesaid ship, Sir Richard Greenville, general of Virginia, accompanied with three ships well appointed for the same voyage, arrived there. Who not finding the aforesaid ship according to his expectation, nor hearing any news of our English colony there, seated and left by him anno 1585, himself travelled up into divers places of the country, as well to see if he could hear any news of the colony left there by him the year before, under the charge of Mr. Lane his deputy, as also to discover some places of the country. But after some time spent therein, not hearing any news of them, and finding the places which they inhabited desolate, yet unwilling to lose the possession of the country which Englishmen had so long held, after good deliberation, he determined to leave some men behind to retain possession of the country. Whereupon he landed fifteen men in the Isle of Raonoke, furnished plen 4 tifully with all manner of provision for two years, and so departed for England. 'Not long after he fell-in with the Isles of Azores, on some of which islands he landed, and spoiled the towns of all such things as were worth carriage, where also he took divers Spaniards. With these, and many other exploits done by him in this voyage, as well outward as homeward, he returned into England.m America, though the most defenceless part of the king of Spain's dominions, was at this time regarded as the principal source of his power; and Elizabeth, finding that, on account of her late league with the States, an open breach with Philip was unavoidable, had resolved not to leave him unmolested in that quarter. A fleet of twenty sail under admiral Sir Francis Drake was accordingly equipped to attack the Spaniards in the West Indies. Having made themselves masters of St. Jago, St. Domingo, Carthagena, S. Anthony, and St. Helens, in succession, they sailed along the coast of Virginia, and found Ralegh's colony in June 1586, in the condition already described. They arrived at Plymouth with Lane and his followers on the 27th of July, when they brought into England, for the first time, ! the Nicotiana, or tobacco," a plant, which, I need not observe, is subsequently become no less productive of wealth to this country itself, than of general utility and gratification to its inhabitants. It had long n Camden's words are:-Et hi reduces Indicam illam plantam quam Tabaccam vocant et Nicotiam, qua contra cruditates, ab Indis edocti, usi erant, in Angl «m primi, quod sciam, intulerunt. Ex illo sane tempore usu coepit esse creberrimo, et magno pretio, dum quamplurimi grave-olentem illius fumum, alii lascivientes, alii valetudini consulentes, per tubulum testaceum inexplebili aviditate passim hauriunt et mox e naribus efflant; adeo ut tabernæ Tabaccanæ non minus quam cervisiariæ et vinariæ passim per oppida habeantur. Ut Anglorum corpora, (quod salse ille dixit) qui hac planta tantopere delectantur, in Barbarorum naturam degenerasse videantur; quum iisdem quibus Barbari delectentur, et sanari se posse credant. Ann. Elizab. 1585. • The reader will, I hope, pardon my here repeating the fol lowing lines. Blest leaf! whose aromatic gales dispense |