George Percy's Poem: The Settlement Of The Chesapeake Bay

I chose http://www.marinersmuseum.org/sites/micro/cbhf/colonial/col007.html because it has art from the particular era that these events took place as well as primary sources. This site is related to the topic we are currently studying in the manner of its main subject: the settlement of the Chesapeake Bay. One thing I found interesting was George Percy’s journal entry on April 26th, 1607 (the day of arrival): "The six and twentieth day of April, about four o’clock in the morning, we descried the land of Virginia; the same day we entõred into the Bay of Chesupiocé we could find nothing worth the speaking of but fair meadows and goodly tall trees, with such fresh waters running through the woods as I was almost ravished at the first sight thereof. The nine and twentieth day, we set up a cross at Chesupiocé Bay and named that place ‘Cape Henry.’” His writing describes how although there was not much to Virginia, the nature was absolutely gorgeous.
I have predicted that a huge population of these animals have perished because of deforestation. Spelman was the most interesting person I read about because he had left Europe for the Jamestown Settlement as a teenager. He may have been younger than me and yet he has a larger vocabulary. He also was sent to live with the Powhatans to learn their language and culture. I could not have been that courageous to live with a whole different culture of strangers, let alone leave my home country. The most important thing I learned from this website was about how America looked before the European immigrants settled into it. It had no buildings, life and nature flourished, and all of the plants and animals lived