"Land area" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... occasional mention of the splitting of counties in two parts, or of the formation of new parishes. Usually these divisions were made along rivers or streams. Such legislation suggests that settlement was spreading back from the water routes into the land area between streams. The early counties were normally set up to embrace the area on both sides of watercourses, even broad rivers like the James and York. The rivers were, in the early period of settlement, bonds that linked the settlers on either side ...
— Virginia Under Charles I And Cromwell, 1625-1660 • Wilcomb E. Washburn |
