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 JAMESTOWN JAMIESON 523 thence flows S. E. and E. to the Blue Ridge, at the foot of which it receives Cnlfpasture river on the left. Breaking through the Blue Ridge about 15 m. N. E. of the Peaks of Otter, it re- sumes its S. E. course to Lynchburg, near which town it bends sharply to the N. E. On reaching the boundary between Albemarle and Buckingham cos., it takes an E. 8. E. direc- tion, which it retains with little variation until it reaches Richmond, where it turns nearly S. It is here obstructed by rapids, and embraces a number of small islands. Near the S. E. ex- tremity of Henrico co. it again takes a S. E. course, after some tortuous deviations, and finally flows into the S. part of Chesapeake bay, through a broad estuary, at the mouth of which are Hampton roads. Willoughby point and Old Point Comfort are on either side of its embouchure. The river is 450 m. long, and navigable by vessels of 130 tons to Richmond, at the head of tide water, 150 m. from the sea, whence the James River and Kanawha canal, completed to Buchanan in Botetourt co., passes along its upper course. The principal tribu- taries of James river are the Appomattox on the right and the Chickahominy on the left. The most important towns on its banks are Richmond and Lynchburg. JAMESTOWN, a village of Chautauqua co., New York, at the outlet of Chautauqua lake and on the Atlantic and Great Western, and the Dunkirk, Alleghany Valley, and Pittsburgh railroads, 55 m. S. S. W. of Buffalo; pop. in 1870, 5,336. It is connected by a daily line of steamers with Mayville, at the opposite end of the lake, and contains a piano factory, several sash and blind factories, two machine shops and founderies, an edge-tool factory, a large alpaca factory, woollen mills, three large chair factories, &c. There are three national banks, four hotels, a collegiate institute, two daily and two weekly newspapers, and eight church- es. The lake is becoming a favorite summer resort. Eight hotels and many cottages have been erected on its shores, and four steamers and numerous yachts ply upon it. JAMESTOWN, the first English settlement in the United States, situated within the present limits of James City co., Virginia, on a point of land projecting from the N. bank of James river, 32 m. above its mouth. The encroach- ments of the river have converted the promon- tory into an island, and a portion of the site of the settlement has been entirely swept away. A part of the old church tower, with some tombstones standing around it, is now the only relic of the ancient town. There is a private residence on the island. Jamestown was founded in 1607 by 105 colonists sent out by the London company under command of Christopher Newport. Capt. John Smith and Bartholomew Gosnold were prominent mem- bers of the expedition. Their fleet, consisting of three vessels, entered the Chesapeake April 26, and sailing up the James river, which they named in honor of the reigning king of Eng- land, anchored off a beautiful promontory, where in May they began to build a town. During the first season of their arrival the colony was exposed to extreme want and dan- ger, and it was only saved from speedy de- struction by the energy of Capt. Smith and the good offices of Pocahontas. The first colo- nial assembly ever convened in America was hc4d at Jamestown, July 30, 1619. On March 22, 1622, several hundred colonists were mas- sacred by the Indians. (See VIRGINIA.) Na- thaniel Bacon, during the rebellion which took its name from him, burned the town in 1676. JAMI (ABDERRAHMAN BEN AHMED), a Persian poet, born A. D. 1414, died in 1492. He de- rived his surname Jami from Jam, the place of his birth in Khorasan. After excelling in other studies, he applied himself to the mystical doc- trine of the Sufis under the celebrated sheik Saad ed-Din of Kashgar, and was judged wor- thy to succeed that master in his school. His eloquence and amiable character, and the beau- ty of his poems, made him a favorite of the vizier Ali Shir, the sultans of Herat, Abu Said and Hussein Mirza, and also of the Ottoman sultans Mohammed II. and Bajazet II. He was equally esteemed by the common people, whom he instructed beneath the portico of the mosque of Herat in the principles of morals and religion. He is one of the best, most learned, and most voluminous of the Persian poets, and composed about 50 works in prose and verse, in Arabic and Persian. Among the more important of them are " Yusuf and Zu- leika," translated into English by Thomas Law in the " Asiatic Miscellanies," and published in German with the original text by Rosenzweig (Vienna, 1824) ; the "Golden Chain," a satiri- cal poem against two heretical sects, edited by F. Falconer (London, 1848) ; " Selman and Ab- sal," edited by Falconer (London, I860) ; the " Book of the Wisdom of Alexander ;" Behar- istan (the "Abode of Spring"); and the prose work, NasaJiat ul-in ("Breath of Man"), a history of mysticism. JAMIESON, John, a Scottish clergyman, born in Glasgow, March 3, 1759, died in Edinburgh, July 12, 1838. He was the son of a Secession minister settled in Glasgow, and was educated at the university of that city. At the age of 20 he was licensed as a preacher, and in 1781 was ordained pastor of a small congregation in Forfar, where he remained 16 years on a salary of 50. During this time he published " So- cinianism Unmasked" (1788), "The Sorrows of Slavery, a Poem" (1789), "Sermons on the Heart" (2 vols. 8vo, 1789-'90), and "A Vindi- cation of the Doctrine of Scripture and of the Primitive Faith concerning the Deity of Christ " (2 vols. 8vo, 1794), in which the arguments of Priestley in his " History of Early Opinions " are ably combated. In 1797 he was settled over a congregation in Edinburgh, where he passed the remainder of his life. In 1802 ap- peared his " Use of Sacred History " (2 vols. 8vo), and in 1808-'9 his most important work,