"Jack Crenshaw" <jcrens@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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When I was in grade school, I remember learning that Columbus discovered
America in 1492, but Jamestown wasn't founded until something like 1610.
  That's over 100 years between first contact and colonization.  I
always wondered:  Why in the world would people wait? Why waste 100
years after knowing North America was here, and how to get to it?  It
seemed crazy to me.

few things, Columbus thought he was in India and that was already colonized,
second South America where he landed was Jamestown was the North America's
first settlement of England.  France and Finns already had people here.