{"date":"July 30","id":"07-30","intro":["When the whole coast of America north of Florida was free to the first comer, Sir Humphrey Gilbert naïvely chose to settle on the rugged shores of Newfoundland. Read the glowing account of his great adventure “to plant Christian inhabitants in places convenient.”"],"minutes":22,"readings":[{"author":"Edward Haies","end":273,"start":263,"volume":33,"work":"Gilbert’s Voyage to Newfoundland"}],"slug":"july-30","status":"proofread","title":"The First English Colony in North America","url":"/harvard-classics/july-30/","words":4466}