The making of the American nation; a history for elementary schools . Neighbors — Fiske. Read the following topics:Drakes voyage. Vol. I, 25; Captain John Smith, Vol. I, 80; starvingtime, Vol. I, 119; the Kingdom of Virginia, Vol. I, 223 ; piracy. Vol. II,338; tobacco culture in the Southern colonies. Vol. II, 17-4; Marylandafter the death of Cromwell, Vol. II, 131; the northern boundary, , 145; Lockes perfect plan, Vol. II, 272 ; the beginning of Georgia,Vol. II, 335. These topics may be read also in Bancrofts History of the UnitedStates. Stories of Pennsylvania — Brumbaugh and Walton.
The making of the American nation; a history for elementary schools . Neighbors — Fiske. Read the following topics:Drakes voyage. Vol. I, 25; Captain John Smith, Vol. I, 80; starvingtime, Vol. I, 119; the Kingdom of Virginia, Vol. I, 223 ; piracy. Vol. II,338; tobacco culture in the Southern colonies. Vol. II, 17-4; Marylandafter the death of Cromwell, Vol. II, 131; the northern boundary, , 145; Lockes perfect plan, Vol. II, 272 ; the beginning of Georgia,Vol. II, 335. These topics may be read also in Bancrofts History of the UnitedStates. Stories of Pennsylvania — Brumbaugh and Walton. For biographical sketches read Chandlers Makers of Virginia History,and Chappells Georgia History Stories. ^ CHAPTER IV THE DUTCH AND QUAKER COLONIESNEW YORK Verrazano visits New York Bay. 1524. — Among the peopleinterested in the trade with India in the early years of the six-teenth century were certain merchants of Dieppe, in France. Atthat time the belief was general that the newly found continentwas a very narrow body of land. Balboa had crossed it at the. 7 A^.^Vopw^ Maxt Oceonum The Maiollo Map, 1527. Copied from a chart made by Verrazanos brother, showing the isthmus supposedto separate the Atlantic and Indian oceans. Isthmus of Panama, where it is less than thirty miles wide, andMagellan had sailed through the short strait that now bears hisname. Hence there were pretty good reasons for such a of the idea that a passage-way through the new land must 45 46 THE MAKING OF THE AMERICAN NATION exist, a company of these merchants of Dieppe employed Giovannida Verrazano to search the coast for such a passage. In January, 1524, Verrazano reached the coast of North Caro-lina, which he described as a new land, never before seen bymen. Keeping along the coast to the northeast heth^p^ ?fi^ entered nearly every bay or estuary which he sighted,hoping that it might be a strait leading to the he thought he had seen the Pacific Ocean seems probablefrom a m
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