United States; a history: the most complete and most popular history of the United States of America from the aboriginal times to the present . within the tropics, began to shiver with the cold, and the enter-prise, which could have resulted in nothing but disaster, was given to the south, Drake passed the winter of 1579-80 in a harboron the coast of Mexico. To all that portion of the western shores ofAmerica which he had thus explored he gave the name of New Albion;but the earlier discovery of the same coast by the Spaniards rendered theEnglish claim of but little value. No
United States; a history: the most complete and most popular history of the United States of America from the aboriginal times to the present . within the tropics, began to shiver with the cold, and the enter-prise, which could have resulted in nothing but disaster, was given to the south, Drake passed the winter of 1579-80 in a harboron the coast of Mexico. To all that portion of the western shores ofAmerica which he had thus explored he gave the name of New Albion;but the earlier discovery of the same coast by the Spaniards rendered theEnglish claim of but little value. No colony of Englishmen had yetbeen established in the New World. Sir Humphrey Gilbert was perhaps the first to conceive a rationalplan of colonization in America. His idea was to form somewhere on theshores of the New Continent an agricultural and commercial state. Withthis purpose he sought aid from the queen, and received a liberal patentauthorizing him to take possession of any six hundred square miles ofunoccupied territory in America, and to plant thereon a colony of whichhe himself should be proprietor and governor. With this commission,.
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