W.W.W. >From the records we have: "David Pietersz de Vries, a Dutch shipmaster visited Virginia in March,1633 at Newport News that was a watering point for incoming and outgoing,vessels. He says:'The 10th,we sailed up the river[James]. When we came to the before-mentioned point of Newport-Snuw, we landed and took in water. A fine spring lies inside the shore of the river,convenient for taking water from. All the ships come here to take in water on their way home. After we procured some water,we sailed on. . . ' On March20,when leaving Virginia,De Vries observed again'anchored at evening before the point of Newport-Snuw,where we took in water'." H. Angel329@prodigy.net wrote: > > I just wanted to write a note to cite a book a little older than the rest of > these....doesn't the Bible state all through it about the women,etc., going > to the well for drinking water??!! > There is no way that I would ever believe that a lush, green, clean country > such as Ireland wouldn't have had some fresh water. > I would also imagine that it was harder to find around London with the > contamination but I cannot believe that all/ or most of the water in Europe > was bad. I have heard Europeans that come here talk about not drinking our > water and will only drink their bottles of water...we have bad water > .....i.e. chemicals, toxins... > That is one big thing that our ancestors didn't have to deal with and that > is all of these horrible toxins put into our streams. > Surely, though, I can trust that the Bible was correct in talking about the > cool, clean water... > Though, too, I would imagine if people had a choice of drinking plain > water-clean or not-or drinking some type of stimulant or go-go juice, they > would choose the later. > Diana Kinzer Heath > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > USGenWeb County Coordinator for: > Roanoke Co., Roanoke City & Salem City, VA at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~varoanok/index.html > Wood Co., WV at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvwood/indexa.htm > Mason Co., WV at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvmason/ > > Rootsweb Mail List Owner/Admin for: > VAROANOK-L@Rootsweb.com > WVWOOD-L@Rootsweb.com > KINZER-L@Rootsweb.com > GRALEY-L@Rootsweb.com > MILLER-L@Rootsweb.com > SCHMIDT-L@Rootsweb.com > BERNHARD-L@Rootsweb.com > KARP-L@Rootsweb.com > > GenConnect Surname Boards Admin. for: > KINZER, CORNS & MILLER. > > MY HOME PAGE: > http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/h/e/a/Diana-K-Heath/ > > ***Proud Rootsweb Sponsor*** > > ==== VAAUGUST Mailing List ==== > **************************************************************** > The Augusta County mailing list page has instructions on how to > subscribe and unsubscribe from the list > Visit it at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~vapulask/augustaquery/augustalist.htm > ***************************************************************