. New France and New England. us, althoughhis allusions to places are often far from clear, we cannotfail to see that his voyage in quest of a western passage inThe true the summer of 1542 was directed not northwardSons^cet but southward from the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Hevoyage secms to havc entered Massachusetts Bay, and may have passed through Long Island Sound and Hell Gate; atall events, he has much to say about the town of Norum-bega, which Mercators map of 1569 places upon ManhattanIsland ; and he tells us that the river of Norumbega is salt * Its description is Cosmographie avec espere e
. New France and New England. us, althoughhis allusions to places are often far from clear, we cannotfail to see that his voyage in quest of a western passage inThe true the summer of 1542 was directed not northwardSons^cet but southward from the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Hevoyage secms to havc entered Massachusetts Bay, and may have passed through Long Island Sound and Hell Gate; atall events, he has much to say about the town of Norum-bega, which Mercators map of 1569 places upon ManhattanIsland ; and he tells us that the river of Norumbega is salt * Its description is Cosmographie avec espere et 7-egitne du Soleil etdu Norden nostrc langue franqoysepar Jehan Aiiefonsce, BibliothequeNationale, MSS. fran^ais 676. An account of it is given in de Ten-e-iVeuve, p. 153, and Azotes sjir la Nouvellc France,p. 7. See also De Costa, Northmcu in Maine, etc., pp. 92-122. 2 Cf. Weise, The Discoveries of America, New York, 1884, p. 352. V L E S oyages auanturcux DV CAPITAINE Ian a l f o n c e 5Sainclongeois,. Aucc Priuilege da R o y- A Poitiers? au Pelican; par Ian de Marnef. TITLE OF ALLEFONSCES VOYAGES, 1559 24 NEW FRANCE AND NEW ENGLAND for more than ninety miles from its mouth, which is trueof the Hudson, but not of any other river which men havesought to associate with Norumbega, Moreover, our goodpilot feels confident that this great river, if followed farenough to the northward, would be found to unite with theother great river of Hochelaga, that is, the St. Lawrence.^This notion, of a union between the Hudson and the , became a very common one, and found expres-sion upon the famous map of Gastaldi in 1553, and uponother maps. If we were to allow a little free play to our fancy, it wouldnot be difficult to assign a suitable explanation for this voy-age of Allefonsce in connection with the expedition ofRoberval, There is no longer any doubt that the HudsonRiver was first made known to Europeans by Verrazano in1524, and was called by various nam
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