. A brief history of the United States . erity of the climate. l6o6.] DUTCH EXPLORATIOlSrS. 39 election of an officer. The king was to appoint a councilwhich was to reside in Loudon, and have general control of allthe colonies; and also a council to reside in each colony, andhave control of its local affairs. The Church of England wasthe established religion. Moreover, for five years, all theproceeds of the colonial industry and commerce were to beapplied to a common fund, no one being allowed the fruitsof his individual labor. DUTCH EXPLORATIONS. During all this time, the Dutch manifested no
. A brief history of the United States . erity of the climate. l6o6.] DUTCH EXPLORATIOlSrS. 39 election of an officer. The king was to appoint a councilwhich was to reside in Loudon, and have general control of allthe colonies; and also a council to reside in each colony, andhave control of its local affairs. The Church of England wasthe established religion. Moreover, for five years, all theproceeds of the colonial industry and commerce were to beapplied to a common fund, no one being allowed the fruitsof his individual labor. DUTCH EXPLORATIONS. During all this time, the Dutch manifested no interest inthe new world. In the beginning of the seventeenth century,however. Captain Henry Hudson, anEnglish navigator in the Dutch ser-vice, entered the harbor of Kew to reach the Pacific Ocean, heafterward ascended the noble riverwhich bears his name (1609). On this discovery, the Dutch basedtheir claim to the region extending henry hudson. from the Delaware Elver to Cape Cod. They gave to it thename of !N^ew EXTENT OF THESE EXPLORATIONS. 1. The Spaniards confined their settlements and explora-tions to the West Indies and the adjacent mainland, andin the United States made settlements only in Florida andNew Mexico. 2. The French claimed the whole of New France, and madetheir first settlements in Acadia and Canada. 3. The English explored the Atlantic coast at various 40 EPOCH I. [1607 points, and claimed this vast territory, which they termed Vir-ginia, having made their first settlement at Jamestown. * 4. The Dutch laid claim to New Netherland, but madeno settlement till 1613. The Rjval Claims.—These four claims overlappedf oneanother, and necessarily jjroduced much confusion. Whilethe first few settlements were separated by hundreds of milesof savage forests, this was of little account. But as the set-tlements increased, the rival claims became a source of con-stant strife, and were decided principally by the sword. Two Centuries of Exploration
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