1817

Paulding, James Kirke. Letters from the South. New York, 1817. 16, 18-19. (New York, 1835. 23, 25.) Letter 2, 1816. Prolific Paulding was once thought of as one of the premier American writers. His remarks here are triggered more by reading Smith's Generall Historie than by a Southern landmark: "Neither Neptune, nor Jupiter, nor Minerva, took [the colonists] under their protection; nor did Medea assist them in overcoming the obstacles in their way by any of the arts of magic. Fortitude, valour, perseverance, industry, and little Pocahontas, were their tutelary deities, and their golden fleece, fields of corn, and plantations of tobacco."
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