Excerpt from Bulletin of the Ancient and Historic College of William and Mary in Virginia, Vol. 18: Summer Quarter, 1925
At Jamestown, in 1607, was made the first permanent English settlement in America. The site was originally a peninsula, but the tides and the current of the river gradually cut a channel through the connecting isthmus of low land.
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