. The outline of history : being a plain history of life and mankind. ja a •d •4-^ y a % B « •0 •o HH a, 4> 5 co i o S r>) o o en T3 a. 2 c (fl S -^ 8 o j3 5 a 3 (J O 4) u > u a ?* Ph o 1-4 0^ a hi s u S . •f^ •iH >-J >?4 ^ W1CO (A L^ c V _« < n i o (J X H oI-) S to ^ a O a < ..Ci, u Q a: H 5 s Is 03 oa -^ REPUBLICS OF AMERICA AND FRANCE 455 ant line indeed in the later affairs of theUnited States. Carolina, which was origin-ally an unsuccessful French Protestant estab-lishment, and which owed its name not toCharles (Carolus) II of England, but toCharles IX of France, had
. The outline of history : being a plain history of life and mankind. ja a •d •4-^ y a % B « •0 •o HH a, 4> 5 co i o S r>) o o en T3 a. 2 c (fl S -^ 8 o j3 5 a 3 (J O 4) u > u a ?* Ph o 1-4 0^ a hi s u S . •f^ •iH >-J >?4 ^ W1CO (A L^ c V _« < n i o (J X H oI-) S to ^ a O a < ..Ci, u Q a: H 5 s Is 03 oa -^ REPUBLICS OF AMERICA AND FRANCE 455 ant line indeed in the later affairs of theUnited States. Carolina, which was origin-ally an unsuccessful French Protestant estab-lishment, and which owed its name not toCharles (Carolus) II of England, but toCharles IX of France, had fallen intoEnglish hands and was settled at several Swedish settlements, of which the chief townwas New Amsterdam. These settlementswere captured from the Dutch by the Britishin 1664, lost again in 1673, and restored bytreaty when Holland and England madepeace in 1674. Thereby the whole coastfrom Maine to Carolina became in some form ^fic AlvtERICAM (^vn^^ scttUd up to 1760 I Qmbec. ditto to 1760 • FreruDi setflcTnentii( forts N-Hf New Hampshire?Ji/T. MassachusettsC. - Rhode = New Jersey>^* MarylandD Delaware points. 1 Between Maryland and New. Eng-land stretched a number of small Dutch and ^ There is some doubt about the name of , in his short history, says it was named inhonour of Charles II. Bassett says it was namedoriginally Carolana, in honour of Charles I, in 1629,and kept the name, under the new form of Carolina,in honour of Charles II. Fisk, Old Virginia and herNeighbours, vol. i, p. 265, speaks of Carolina, in 1629,as named either in honour of Charles I or becausethe name had been given by Huguenots in 1562 inhonour of Charles IX of France. Another authorityspeaks of the name as used before, and now no doubtretained in honour of the English king ; but, accord-ing to him, the name had not been used for thecountry (called, by the French, Florida), but for afort in it, the arx Carolana. He
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