History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the present time . Verrazano, the Florentine Navigator. probably Block Island. Sailing from herealong the coast as far north as Newfound-land, he named this vast territory New-France. In 1534 Cartier, a noted voyager of , coasted along the north of New-. Jacques an old pri-nf, I i54o] ENGLISH AND FRENCH 97 foundland, passed through the Straits ofBelle Isle into the water now known as Gulf, and into the mouth of theSt. Lawrence River. Erecting a cross, hetook possession of the shores in the na
History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the present time . Verrazano, the Florentine Navigator. probably Block Island. Sailing from herealong the coast as far north as Newfound-land, he named this vast territory New-France. In 1534 Cartier, a noted voyager of , coasted along the north of New-. Jacques an old pri-nf, I i54o] ENGLISH AND FRENCH 97 foundland, passed through the Straits ofBelle Isle into the water now known as Gulf, and into the mouth of theSt. Lawrence River. Erecting a cross, hetook possession of the shores in the nameof the king of France. In the following year he made a secondvoyage, going up as far as the mouth of asmall river which the year before he hadnamed St. Johns. He called the watersthe Bay of St. Lawrence. Ascending this,he came to a settlement of the natives neara certain hill, which he called Mont Royal,now modified into Montreal. Cartierreturned to France in 1536, only a few ofhis men having survived the winter. In 1540 Lord Roberval fitted out a fleet,with Cartier as subordinate. Cartier sailedat once—his third voyage—Roberval fol-lowing the next year. A fort was builtnear the present site of Quebec. Robervaland Cartier disagreed and returned toFrance, leaving the real foundation ofQuebec to be laid by Champlain, m
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