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Gosnold in New England.%--With the new century came better fortune.

Ralegh's noble efforts to plant a colony aroused Englishmen to the possibility of founding a great empire in the New World, and especially one named Bartholomew Gosnold.
Instead of following the old route to America by way of the Canary Islands, the West Indies, and Florida, he sailed due west across the Atlantic,[2] and brought up on the shore of a cape which he named Cape Cod.[3] Following the shore southward, he passed through Nantucket Sound and Vineyard Sound, till he came to Cuttyhunk Island, at the entrance of Buzzards Bay.

On this he landed, and built a house for the use of colonists he intended to leave there.

But when he had filled his ship with sassafras roots and cedar logs, nobody would remain, and the whole company went back to England.[4] [Footnote 2: By thus shortening the journey 3000 miles, he practically brought America 3000 miles nearer to Europe.] [Footnote 3: Because the waters thereabout abounded in codfish.