Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . FLOBIDA ing an eddy. The power may be rereraedto propel her either way. Said power isconnected to upright levers, to make hori-zontal strokes alternately. This proj-ect wag abandoned, and the battery was sold at auction in 1880. See Stevens,John. Floods. See Inundations. riores, the westernmost island of theAzores; discovered in 1439. FLORIDA Florida, the twenty-seventh State ad-mitted into the Union; received its namefrom its discoverer in 1512 (see Ponce deLeon ). It was visite
Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . FLOBIDA ing an eddy. The power may be rereraedto propel her either way. Said power isconnected to upright levers, to make hori-zontal strokes alternately. This proj-ect wag abandoned, and the battery was sold at auction in 1880. See Stevens,John. Floods. See Inundations. riores, the westernmost island of theAzores; discovered in 1439. FLORIDA Florida, the twenty-seventh State ad-mitted into the Union; received its namefrom its discoverer in 1512 (see Ponce deLeon ). It was visited by Vasquez, anoth-er Spaniard, in 1520. It is believed bysome that Verrazani saw its coasts in1524; and the same year a Spaniard namedDe Geray visited it. Its conquest was un-dertaken by Narvaez, in 1528, and by DeSoto in 1539. Pamphilio Nakvaez,Cabeza de Vaca (g. v.), with severalhundred young men from rich and noblefamilies of Spain landed at Tampa Bay,. STATE SEAL OF FLOBIDA. April 14, 1528, taking possession of thecountry for the King of Spain. In Augustthey had reached St. Marks at AppopodreeBay, but the ships they expected had notyet arrived. They made boats by Septem-ber 2, on which they embarked and sailedalong shore to the Mississippi. All thecompany excepting Cabeza de Vaca andthree others perished. In 1549, Louis Can-cella endeavored to establish a mission inFlorida but was driven away by the Ind-ians, who killed most of the Huguenots under John Kibaulthad made a settlement at Port Royal, butremoved to the mouth of St. Johns River in Florida, where they were soon rein-forced by several hundred Huguenots withtheir families. They erected a fort whichthey named Fort Carolina. Philip Melen-dez with 2,500 men reached the coast ofFlorida on St. Augustines day, and march-ed against the Huguenot vessels were wrecked, and Melen-dez attacked the fort, captured it andmassacred 900 men, women, and c
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