THE PLANTING OF NEW ENGLAND %30.

The Beginnings of New England.%--When the Dutch put up their trading posts where New York and Albany now stand, all the country east of New York, all of what is now New England, was a wilderness.

As early as 1607 an attempt was made to settle it and a colony was planted on the coast of Maine by two members of the Plymouth Company, Sir John Popham, Lord Chief Justice of England, and Sir Ferdinando Gorges, governor of Plymouth.

But the colonists were half starved and frozen, and in the spring of 1608 gladly went home to England.
Six years later John Smith, the hero of Virginia, explored and mapped the coast from the Penobscot to Cape Cod.

He called the country New England; one of the rivers, the Charles; and two of the promontories, Cape Elizabeth and Cape Ann.