their  cabins,  encircled  with  stockades  as  a  defense
against  Indians.  Below,  are  the  plains  of  what  will  be
Chesterfield,  clothed  with  forest ;  in  front  verdnroas
islands  dipping  their  foliage  in  the  foam  of  the  falls ;
behind  toward  the  mountains  is  the  Monacan  country,
that  is  the  unknown.  As  we  float  down  James  River,
which  is  the  great  artery  of  the  colony,  we  see  first  the
range  of  hills  on  the  left  bank,  once  the  site  of  the
Emperor  Powhatan's  summer  court,  and  then  of  ''  Non-
such," the  settlement  begun  by  Smith.  Here,  about
fifteen  thousand  acres  are  laid  out  as  public  land  for
the  use  of  the  "  University  of  Henrico ; "  but  as  yet
there  are  few  tenants.  Passing  "  Powhatan  "  or  Non-
such, on  its  hill,  we  see  yonder  on  the  right  bank  the
settlement  of  Falling  Creek,  or  rather  the  blackened
brands  of  the  burnt  buildings,  for  the  Indians  recently
destroyed  it.  Master  Berkeley  was  erecting  a  furnace
here  to  smelt  iron  and  lead,  before  the  massacre ;  but
he  is  dead  now,  and  the  exact  locality  of  his  valuable
lead-mine  is  a  secret  which  has  died  with  him.  More
than  a  hundred  years  hence,  an  enterpriBJng  Virginian,
Colonel  Byrd  of  Westover,  will  be  curious  about  this
mine ;  will  bribe  a  vagrant  Indian  to  secretly  drop  his
tomahawk  on  the  spot,  which  the  Indian  declares  he
can  point  out ;  but  the  tomahawk  is  not  dropped,  or
drops  in  the  wrong  place,  and  the  lead-mine  will  not  be
found  then,  or  afterwards.
