 July, we found shole water, wher we smelt so sweet, and so strong a smel, as if we had, bene in the midst of some delicate garden abounding with all kinde of odoriferous flowers, by which we were assured, that the land could not be farre distant...  The History of Progress in Great Britain - Page 322by Robert Kemp Philp - 1859Full view - About this book
 | Children's periodicals - 1837 - 400 pages
...so strong a smell as if we had been in the midst of some delicate garden, abounding with all kinds of odoriferous flowers; by which we were assured that the land could not be far distant. And keeping good watch, and bearing nothing but slack sail, the fourth of the same month... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks - North Carolina - 1857 - 274 pages
...and so strong a smell as if we had been in the midst of some delicate garden abounding with all kinds of odoriferous flowers, by which we were assured that the land could not be far distant ; and keeping good watch and bearing but slack sail, the fourth of the same month we arrived... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Explorers - 1877 - 446 pages
...and so strong a smell, as if we had been in the midst of some delicate garden abounding with all kind of odoriferous flowers, by which we were assured that the land could not be far distant. And 1 Anno Domini. '77 keeping good watch, and bearing but slack sail, the 4th of the... | |
 | Increase Niles Tarbox - Indians of North America - 1884 - 354 pages
...48. 49, 76 This was two months and five days after they left the " weft of England." Thirty of fome delicate garden abounding with all kinde of odoriferous flowers, by which we were affured, that the land could not be farre diftant : and keeping good watch, and bearing but flacke... | |
 | Richard Hakluyt - America - 1889 - 734 pages
...you with the remembrance of them. The second of luly, we found shole water, wher we smelt so sweet, and so strong a smel, as if we had bene in the ^ sweet midst of some delicate garden abounding with all smell from kinde of odoriferous flowers, by... | |
 | 1893 - 452 pages
...so strong a smel, as if we had been in the midst of some delicate garden abounding with oderiferous flowers, by which we were assured, that the land could not be farre distant." The characteristic of what Lane afterward called the " paradise of the world " may... | |
 | William Ernest Henley, Charles Whibley - English prose literature - 1894 - 452 pages
...and so strong a smell, as if we had been in the midst of some delicate garden abounding with all kind of odoriferous flowers, by which we were assured that the land could not be far distant ; and keeping good watch, and bearing but slack sail, the fourth of the same month we arrived... | |
 | Philip Alexander Bruce - Virginia - 1895 - 670 pages
...the modern North Carolina, but before it had been sighted, detected "a smel so sweet and so strong as if we had bene in the midst of some delicate garden abounding with all kinds of odoriferous flowers, by which they were assured that the land could not be farre distant."... | |
 | History - 1897 - 348 pages
...so sweet and so strong a smel, as if we had been in the midst of some delicate garden abounding with odoriferous flowers, by which we were assured, that the land could not be f arre distant. ' ' This characteristic of what Lane afterward called the "Paradise of the world" may... | |
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