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| | Cartography and Exploration-Cumming |
 | | Some of these names, such as Cape Carteret, Ashley River, and Albemarle River, were already in use by 1670, but the names of the counties would evidently be the result of some authoritative decision; and, from the title’s By Order of the Lords Proprietors, the official approval of the new names is indicated. |
 | | Like the painter’s wife island of Raleigh’s story, the place was non-existent; and on modern maps John Locke, Ashley’s secretary and English philosopher, has not even a swampy inlet or a tidewater creek named in his honor, though he was once Landgrave in the titled nobility of the fair province of Carolina. |
 | | Anthony Ashley Cooper, Baron Ashley, later the Earl of Shaftesbury, was chief justice of Carolina. |
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