An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . DISCOVERIES OF CARTIER. 143. TAXING POSS-ESSION OF NH-W F3ANC3!. necessary for success. Notwithstanding the difficulties under which;Francis I. then laboured, he coraniissioned Giovanni Verazzano, aFlorentine navigator, to explore the eastern shores of North Ame-rica. In virtue of his discoveries, the coast from Carolina to Nova^Scotia was claimed by the French roonarch,
An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . DISCOVERIES OF CARTIER. 143. TAXING POSS-ESSION OF NH-W F3ANC3!. necessary for success. Notwithstanding the difficulties under which;Francis I. then laboured, he coraniissioned Giovanni Verazzano, aFlorentine navigator, to explore the eastern shores of North Ame-rica. In virtue of his discoveries, the coast from Carolina to Nova^Scotia was claimed by the French roonarch, and named New second expedition under Verazzano was unfortunate ; but ten^years after, Jaques Cartier, a bold and able mariner, made two voy-ages, in the l-^.Uer of which he ascended the St. Lawrence as far asthe site Montreal. In 1540, the same officer was employed underthe Sieur de Roberval, who also sailed up the St. Lawrence, anderfcted a fort where Quebec now stands. The two leaders couldnot agree, and parted ; but nine years after, while sailing to Ame-rica with a similar design, Roberval and his brother perished, as issuf^posed, by 144 CANADA UNDER THE FRENCH. These failures, together with the distracted cond
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