The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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Patuxent River

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View Larger MapDescription of institution: Site of indigenous settlements, navigated by Captain John Smith in 1608, possibly visited by the Spanish before that. The mouth of the river became an important shipping port in the seventeenth-century. URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patuxent_River#History Images linked to this location: People associated with this location: Fisher (-fl. c. 1698) - Visited