“I marvel not a little, right worshipful, that since the fir…
“I marvel not a little, right worshipful, that since the first discovery of America (which is now full four score and ten years), after so great conquests and plannings of the Spaniards and Portuguese there, that we of England could never have the grace to set fast footing in such fertile and temperate places as are left as yet unpossessed of them. But… I conceive great hope that the time approacheth and now is that we of England may share and part stakes … in part of America and other regions as yet undiscovered…. Yea, if we would behold with the eye of pity how all our prisons are pestered and filled with able men to serve their country, which for small robberies are daily hanged up in great numbers, … we would hasten … the deducting of some colonies of our superfluous people into these temperate and fertile parts of America, which being within six weeks’ sailing of England, are yet unpossessed by any Christians, and seem to offer themselves unto us, stretching nearer unto Her Majesty’s dominions than to other parts of Europe.” — Richard Hakluyt, Divers Voyages Touching the Discovery of Ameria and the Islands Adjacent, 1582. According to the excerpt, which of the following areas is the most likely region that the British would colonize?