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Cape Fear River

noun

A river in North Carolina that flows southeast to the Atlantic Ocean at Cape Fear.

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... Company was granted the right to plant a colony anywhere along the coast between 34 and 41 of north latitude (between Cape Fear River and the Hudson). To the second or Plymouth Company was given the right to plant a colony anywhere between 38 and 45 (between the Potomac River and the Bay of Fundy). Each company was to have a tract of land one hundred miles square—fifty ...

— A Brief History of the United States • John Bach McMaster

... Tryon succeeded Dobbs as Governor of North-Carolina. He first resided at Brunswick, on the Cape Fear River, then a town of note, but now a complete ruin, and where among its remains are still seen the massive walls of St. Philip's Church, built by his request, at the ...

— Continental Monthly, Vol. II. July, 1862. No. 1. • Various