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WHEN CAPTAIN CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT GUIDED THREE SMALL SHIPS UP the James River in the spring of 1607, he and the hundred or so colonists on board had little reason to worry about the natural world. Virginia, they believed, was much like the Mediterranean coast, a notion based on the premise that the two regions lay in similar latitudes and therefore had similar climates. Balmy weather, leafy forests that sprouted from rich soils, plentiful fish and wildfowl, and the prospect of gold mined by submissive natives promised easy abundance in an Eden-like wilderness. It did not take long to disabuse Jamestown settlers of such notions. In less than a year two-thirds of their number died from disease and malnutrition. Experiments with exotic crops failed miserably; fish and wildfowl disappeared when the weather turned cold. The sandy soil yielded no gold, and the natives proved far from compliant. Adjusting to the southern environment took decades and cost thousands of lives.

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