. Our country's story; an elementary history of the United States . SPANISH GENTLEMAN OFTHE AlUIADA PERIOD 32 OUR COUNTRYS STORY Ideas about although explorers had coasted along the eastern shores of Northmer- ^(.r(^^ ^^j^^ q^^q along the western shores as far as what is now ica in 1600 Search forthe North-west Pas-sage. SKKKIX(! TlIK NoKlHWEST lAS8A(;E(The Hudson Kiver explored during the search) called Oregon, no onehad any notion of theshape or size of thenorthern half of theNew World. FromFlorida to where NewYork now stands mightbe a solid mass of land,they thought, extend-ing to Ca
. Our country's story; an elementary history of the United States . SPANISH GENTLEMAN OFTHE AlUIADA PERIOD 32 OUR COUNTRYS STORY Ideas about although explorers had coasted along the eastern shores of Northmer- ^(.r(^^ ^^j^^ q^^q along the western shores as far as what is now ica in 1600 Search forthe North-west Pas-sage. SKKKIX(! TlIK NoKlHWEST lAS8A(;E(The Hudson Kiver explored during the search) called Oregon, no onehad any notion of theshape or size of thenorthern half of theNew World. FromFlorida to where NewYork now stands mightbe a solid mass of land,they thought, extend-ing to California, but Canada and all the northwestern part of what is now the United States many supposed to be one great sea broken by islands. From Virginia across the land to this vast northern ocean they tliought was perhaps one hundred miles. Explorers hoped to find a strait throuuli this hnul, and when-ever a mariner came to the A\idc mouth of a river, he would say to himself, Surely I am the fortunate man who has discovered the North-west Passage. If he sailed up the river, he found the water less salt with every mile, and at last he would turn his ships about and sail back, saying, The Northwest Passage must lie farther north, or it may be farther south. Never would he say to himself, There is no Northwest Passage. KALE
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