the land which was the Land of Promise to these weary travelers.

The account of the voyage which was evidently sent to Caecilius, second Lord Baltimore, by his brother, who had accompanied the first adventurers to Maryland is as follows:

"On St. Cecilius' day, the 22d of November, 1633, with a gentle northern gale, we set sale from the Cowes about 10 in the morninge toward the Needles, being rockes at the south end of Ile of Whight, till by default of winde we were forced to ankor at Yarmouth, which very kindly saluted us, howbeit we were not out of feare, for the seamen secretly reported that they expected the post with letters from the Counsell of London, but God would tende the matter and sent the night soe strong a faire winde as forced a French barke from her anker-hold, driving her foule upon our pinnace, forced her to set saile with losse of an ankor and take to sea, that being a dangerous place to floate in, whereby we were necessarily to follow, least we should part companie, and thus God frustrated the plot of our seamen. This was the 23 of Novemb., on St. Clement's day, who wonne his crown. by being cast into the sea fastened to an ankor. That morning by 10 o'clocke we came to Hurste Castle, and thence saluted with a shot, and soe passed the dangerous Needles, being certaine sharpe rockes at the end of the island, much feared by seamen for a double tyde which she carried to shipwrecke, one upon the rockes, tother upon the sand, so with our danger passed Yarmouth, where by dragging ankors in a strong winde and tide we almost runne our shipp aground. All this Saturday and the night following the winde served us so well that next day by 9