THE MIDDLE AND SOUTHERN COLONIES %47.

North and South Carolina.%--You remember that away back in the sixteenth century the French under Jean Ribault and the English under Ralegh undertook to plant colonies on what is now the Carolina coast.
They failed, and the country remained a wilderness till 1653, when a band of emigrants from Virginia made the first permanent settlement on the banks of the Chowan and the Roanoke.

In 1663 some Englishmen from Barbados began to settle on the Cape Fear River, just at the time when Charles II.

of England gave the region to eight English noblemen, who, out of compliment to the King, allowed the name of Carolina given it by Ribault to remain.

In 1665 the bounds were enlarged, and Carolina then extended from latitude 29 deg.