16/32 25-72.] [Illustration: Vicinity of Jamestown] %21. The Virginia Charter of 1609% made a great change in the boundary of the company's property. By the 1606 charter the colony was limited to 100 miles along the seaboard and 100 miles west from the coast. In 1609 the company was given an immense domain reaching 400 miles along the coast,--200 miles each way from Old Point Comfort,--and extending "up into the land throughout _from sea to sea_, west and northwest." This description is very important, for it was afterwards claimed by Virginia to mean a grant of land of the shape shown on the map.[1] [Footnote 1: Read Hinsdale's _Old Northwest_, pp. |