CAROLINA is a fair and spacious Province on the Continent of America: ...This Province lying so near Virginia, and yet more Southward, enjoys the fertility and advantages thereof; and yet is so far distant, as to be freed from the inconstancy of the Weather,... doubtless, there is no Plantation that ever the English went upon, in all respects as good as this...There is seated in this Province two Colonies already, one on the River Roanoak (now called Albemarle River) and borders on Virginia; the Other at Cape Feare, ... of which follows a more particular description… - Robert Horne, 1666 Which region of colonies is the author describing in the excerpt above?