1.  The Geography of Paradise
 Lat. 35°N
 Jerusalem, Garden of Eden
 Paradisal images of the New World
 White's watercolors of 1585

2.  A Wilderness of Savages
 Contrast between Paradise and Wilderness
 Noble Savage//heathen devil
 Alsop's Account

3.  Amerindian Land Use/Settlements
 Hunter/gatherer/collector land use
 Animal and Indian trails/traces
 Licks as hunting spots
 
4.  Planting Indians
 Villages
 Old Fields
 Crops

5.  Colonial Coastal Enclaves
 Town/Wood juxtaposition
 Bacon: "On Plantations"/argument for concentration
 Actuality:  dispersal to the wood
 Rivers as roads from the coast

6.  Dispersal settlement factors:
 economic opportunity
  fur trade
  forest products
 politics
  escape from colonial authority
  English/Spanish conflict

7.  Field/settlement pattern contrasts
 corner/field model [Bacon/Indians/Amish]
 estate model [house centered in 5 acres]
 uniform dispersal model [dotted woods/lands]