New Jersey, from the discovery of Scheyichbi to recent times . othing to do,for he did not discover the continent of North Amer-ica, and in fact never saw it. But after John Cabotand his son Sebastian, then looking for a passage toCathay in the interest of the King of England,made a voyage to North America,and had contented themselveswith discovering New-foundland, Sebastian ^,^came back again, ^^- -and accomplished agreat deal more. Hesailed along the coastfrom Labrador to thesouthern end of Florida, and in the course of thisvoyage discovered New Jer-sey. He made a map of thewhole coast, and
New Jersey, from the discovery of Scheyichbi to recent times . othing to do,for he did not discover the continent of North Amer-ica, and in fact never saw it. But after John Cabotand his son Sebastian, then looking for a passage toCathay in the interest of the King of England,made a voyage to North America,and had contented themselveswith discovering New-foundland, Sebastian ^,^came back again, ^^- -and accomplished agreat deal more. Hesailed along the coastfrom Labrador to thesouthern end of Florida, and in the course of thisvoyage discovered New Jer-sey. He made a map of thewhole coast, and claimed all thecountry back of it for the Kingof England. There is no proof that Cabotknew whether this country hadinhabitants or not. He saw it from his ships; but he did not make any attempt tosettle it, and thus establish a legal right to the soil. Hesimply declared it the property of the Crown of Eng-land, and it is upon this claim that England afterwardbased her right to the eastern coast of North America. And so New Jersey was discovered from the i6 About a quarter of a century after Sebastian Cabotsvoyage, the French took up the idea that they wouldlike to discover something, and Francis I. sent an Ital-ian mariner, named John Verrazano, across the Atlan-tic Ocean. After having sailed far enough, John Verrazano dis-covered the coast of North America, which he called a new land never before seen by any man, ancientor modern. He took possession of it in the nameof his king, and, in order to settle the matter, calledthe whole coast New France. There is reason to be-lieve that Verrazano discovered the southern part ofNew Jersey, for in sailing northward he probablyentered Delaware Bay. But it appears that New Jersey was not yet suffi-ciently discovered, and after having been left for along time in the possession of its true owners, theLenni-Lenape, it was again visited by Europeans. In1609 the celebrated Henry Hudson, then in the serv-ice of the Dutch East India Compa
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