Text Appearing Before Image: oups of tribes, may be more correctly describedas a series of rapids extending several miles. It was an importantplace for fishing, and was frequented by the Indians whose campswould have been found scattered along the wooded banks of thestream, a very rough and broken bit of country. The last village of the Algonquian tribes up the river was a mileor more below the foot of the rapids. It is not improbable that theupper part of the falls, some miles distant from the Algonquianvillage, was often visited by the inhabitants of the nearest Monacantown, Mowhemcho. Powhatans statement to Captain Newport atthe time of their first visit in 1608 that the Monacan came Downeat the fall of the leafe and invaded his Countrye, would indicate thatthe Monacan rather than the Algonquian dominated the region anddid not fear the latter. There was formerly in The Byrd Title Book —a manuscriptvolume belonging to the Virginia Historical Society—a drawing or SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 82 Text Appearing After Image: Fig. I.— Section of the Smith map, 1624, showing the country occupied by the Monacan. NO. 12 MONACAN TOWNS IN VIRGINIA BUSHNELL
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