John Smiths Map show a series of Islands

•      Smith makes the engraving in 1624 of his 1606 memories to have the upper Pamunkey river filled with little islands.

1608 John Smith

•     John Smith explored the Pamunkey river in a small boat called a shallop. They travel at high tide and anywhere he could paddle a canoe back out to the river, he marks as an island. So he draws many islands floating in the middle of the river in his map created in 1624 Because the river has so many similar turns, they simply count the number of island they encounter.