1600 Maps show a series of Islands
• Because the
river has so many similar turns, they simply count the
number of island they encounter. Smith makes the
engraving in 1624 of his 1606 memories to have the upper Pamunkey
river filled with little islands.
• Dutchman Joan Vinckeboons still includes
Smith’s vision of the upper Pamunkey as being filled with
little islands.
1624 John Smith
1639 Vinckeboons