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 slaves. Smith—who, as we have seen in our account of his work in Virginia was a clear-headed and far-sighted man—turned his time to better account than did his comrade, and embodied the results of a careful survey of Maine and the neighboring islands in a map, which he took to England and submitted to Charles I., urging him to inaugurate a company for the colonization of a country so rich in resources, and to give to that country the name of New England.

CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH'S MAP OF NEW ENGLAND.

The latter part of this advice was followed at once, and the districts now forming the six Eastern States of the Union—namely, Maine, New Hamp