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 administration absorbed in the search for the mines which Faldoe reported to exist in the Monacan territory, that there was a grave omission of those duties which it was absolutely necessary to perform to insure the perpetual existence of the community. Delaware had been urged to this course by special instructions from the Council in London, who thus showed the plainest determination to subordinate the practical development of the Jamestown settlement to a search for gold. The foundation of a plantation was not &#8220;the full and utmost intention&#8221; advised from England, but rather, says Dale, the discovery of the mines of Faldoe, the Helvetian. Faldoe perished before he was able to point out the exact spot where he had found gold in the previous year; search was, therefore, uncertain and confused, if made at all, and in the end wholly barren of any favorable result.

In the midst of these groundless notions that gold and