confirmation of the probable truth of my conjecture, concerning the place of that fort When Ribault had" sailed about 15 leagues" from Port Royal river, he found anoth er, which" had not past halfe a fathome water in the mouth thereof." This he called Base or Shallow river. Gov. Drayton (p. 34.) says, " Edisto is shallow and incapable of being navigated far up its stream by boats of heavy burden;" and, though he de scribes the numerous rivers of Carolina, this is the only one, which he calls abzura. Hence I conjecture, that the Edisto of the English is the Base or Shallow river of the Fren If so, Fort Charles must have been about 15 leagues from it; and that is about the d tance of St. Helena from the Edisto.

NOTE V. (p. 197.)

It is not so difficult to find proofs, in support of the text, as it is to select them. They may be seen in Morton, 3-5; Hubbard's MS. N. Eng.; Mather Magnal. book i. 6 Prince Chron. 48, 49; Hazard's Collections, i. 349-373; Hutchinson, i 3; Be knap Biog. i. 151-178. Art. RUBINSON, The motives, ascribed by some English I writers for the emigration of the Puritans from Leyden, it is easily conceived, migh have been readily admitted, without critical inquiry, by the advocates for the English hierarchy, near two centuries ago; but it was hardly to be expected, that writers, d our own age, should copy the injurious representations of those early times into the pages of sober history. The historian who tells us, that the Puritans removed from Leyden into the American wilderness, because they were "obscure and unpersecuted, must not expect to be believed. We endeavoured to assign, in the text, the tru causes of that removal; and have nothing to subjoin, but an expression of regret, that the misrepresentations of foreign writers, on this and the succeeding article, have bee recently transcribed into the work of a very respectable historian of our own country The character and principles of Mr. Robinson and his Society seem not yet to be ↑ fully known. The reverend JouN ROBINSON was a man of learning, of piety, and r catholicism. At first indeed he favoured the rigid separation from the church a England; but, after his removal to Holland," he was convinced of his mistake, and be came, ever after, more moderate in his sentiments respecting separation." Baylie, whe was zealously opposed both to the Brownists and Independents, allows, that "Mr. R "binson was a man of excellent parts, and the most learned, polished and modest spiri "as ever separated from the church of England; that he ruined the rigid separation: " and that he was a principal overthrower of the Brownists." See Prince,86—94; Co- | Hist. Soc. iv. 133-140; Belknap Biog. Art. ROBINSON; Mosheim, v. 381. chap.

Against the concessions of enemies however, and the demonstrations of friend the Puritans of Leyden and of New England are, to this day, represented Brownists; that is, the followers of Robert Brown, a sectary, whose principles were in many respects, very exceptionable, in the view of all sober Christians; and who length abandoned them himself, and conformed to the church of England. Mr. Robinson, who ought to be allowed to say what were his own principles, has explic declared them, in "A just and necessary Apologie of certain Christians no lesse co tumeliously than commonly called Brownists or Barrowists." This Apology profe es “ before God and men, that such is our accord in the case of religion with the Dutz "Reformed Churches as that we are ready to subscribe to all and everie article a ↑ "faith in the same church, as they are layd in the Harmony of Confessions of Fa "published in their name;" with the exception of "one only particle ;" relating = the Apocrypha. On examining the Dutch [Belgic] Confession of Faith in the Harti Confessionum, I find it to be the same in Latin, which, translated into English, now stitutes a part of "The Constitution of the Reformed Dutch Church in the Un States of America." It essentially agrees, in its doctrines, with the Church of Englan NOTE VI. (p. 271.)

For the principles and usages of the Congregational churches, see Cotton's Port of the Keys, Hooker's Survey of the sum of Church Discipline, Norton's Answe the Enquiries of Apollonius, Cambridge Platform, Mather's Magnalia, book v, R=" Disciplina Fratrum Nov-Angl. Hutchinson, i. chap. iv, and Stiles' Christian Unisa