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Definitions Find words in the reading that can complete the following definitions. TYPE or COPY/PASTE the words in the text box. 8. To [cover] a news story is to report on it. (v) Par. 1 9. Something that is [hazardous] is dangerous. (adj) Par. 1 10. If something is [portable] , you can take it with you from place to place easily. (adj) Par. 2 11. To [scan] something is to look at it or read it quickly. (v) Par. 3 12. When things or events [accompany] each other, they go together or happen at the same time. (v) Par. 3
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“As touching the quality of this country, three thinges there bee, which in fewe yeares may bring this Colony to perfection; the English plough, Vineyards, & Cattle…. “All our riches for the present doe consiste in Tobacco, wherein one man by his owne laboour hath in one yeare, raised himself to the value of 200 sterling; and another by the means of sixe seruants hath cleared at one crop a thousand pound english. These be true, yet indeed rare examples, yet possible to be done by others. Our principall wealth (I should haue said) consisteth in servants; but they are chargeable to be furnished with armes, apparel, & bedding, and for their transportation, and casuall both at sea, & for their first yeare commonly at lande also: but if they escape, they proove very hardy, and soundable men.” –John Pory, Secretary of Virginia, Letter to Sir Dudley Carlton, 1619 What did Pory predict for the future of Virginia?
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