. The history of America, from its discovery by Columbus to the conclusion of the late war : with an appendix, containing an account of the rise and progress of the present unhappy contest between Great Britain and her colonies . illed only of the peninfula formed by thefea on the channel of Bahama, between Georgia and Louifiana, was difcoveredin 1497, by the famous John Cabot, to whom England is fo much indebted forher American claims, if not for her puircfTions. The difftrent attempts of .the Spaniards to conquer tiiis country from the na-D. iS^S. tives, their jealoufy of any European nation
. The history of America, from its discovery by Columbus to the conclusion of the late war : with an appendix, containing an account of the rise and progress of the present unhappy contest between Great Britain and her colonies . illed only of the peninfula formed by thefea on the channel of Bahama, between Georgia and Louifiana, was difcoveredin 1497, by the famous John Cabot, to whom England is fo much indebted forher American claims, if not for her puircfTions. The difftrent attempts of .the Spaniards to conquer tiiis country from the na-D. iS^S. tives, their jealoufy of any European nation fettling in it, and the mafiacre of theFrexich protcftants, have been already related *. After de Gourgues had takenvengeance on the murderers of his countrymen, in 1,6-, the ^ipaniards keptquiet pofltffion of Florida, till iheir coafts were vinted by Sir Francis Drake,who reduced all their fettlemcnts near the fliore. Thole fcttlements neverdeferved the name of colonies -, ihey were little more than Spanilli garrifons, fup-portcd at a confiderable expence, in order to prevent the population of a countryabounding with ail the conveniencies of life, and capable of yielding moft of its ^ - • Book IV. chap. ii. ,.
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