A complete history of Texas for schools, colleges and general use . try Florida, the Span-ish name for Easter Sunday being pasciia florida. From thattime the Spaniards named all the main-land north of Cuba andeast of the Mississippi River, Florida. Ponce de Leon landed on April 2, 1513, at a point near themouth of the Saint Johns River. He then sailed southwardaround the point of the peninsula, discovered and named theislands known as the Martyrs and Dry Torlugas (tor-tb-gaz),and finally landed in a bay on the western coast of Florida,which is called by his name to this day. He afterwards expl
A complete history of Texas for schools, colleges and general use . try Florida, the Span-ish name for Easter Sunday being pasciia florida. From thattime the Spaniards named all the main-land north of Cuba andeast of the Mississippi River, Florida. Ponce de Leon landed on April 2, 1513, at a point near themouth of the Saint Johns River. He then sailed southwardaround the point of the peninsula, discovered and named theislands known as the Martyrs and Dry Torlugas (tor-tb-gaz),and finally landed in a bay on the western coast of Florida,which is called by his name to this day. He afterwards exploredthe Gulf coast as far probably as Cedar Keys and AppalacheeBay, and returned to Porto Rico in September, 1513, still believ-ing that the land he had visited was an island, and that he hadnot really reached Bimini. In 1521, De Leon made a secondvoyage, but it was a failure, and he died without knowing thathe had discovered the main-land. In 1516, a celebrated pilot,Diego Miruelo (de-a-go mer-o-a-lO), sailed along the western THE SPANISH IN AMERICA. 1492 TOI6S7. coast of Florida to a bay which was long called by his name, and Preliminarywhich is now known as Pensacola Bay. kriod In 1517, Francisco Hernandez de Cordova (ar-nan-dath dac6r-d6-va) attempted an expedition in the same direction, butwas driven by storms to Yucatan, where he landed at a pointto which he gave its present name of Cape Catoche (ka-t5-cha). In 1518, Juan de Grijalva (hwon da gre-hal-va) sailedfrom Cuba and reached the island of Cozumel (koz-o-mel),whence he went to the main-land of Yucatan and explored itsshores. He was told that it was an island, separated fromthe continent by a strait, and he called what he supposed tobe the continent. New Spain. He reached and explored thecoasts of Central America and Mexico ; named two rivers,—one for himself, which is now the Tabasco River, and theother for his companion, Alvarado. He finally went up thecoast as far as Vera Cruz, at the mouth of which harbor henam
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