An American history . lts of these ambitious plans were meager Swedes maintained their tiny posts on the Delaware Riverfor less than twenty years, and the Dutch held the banks of theHudson for about fifty years. Besides the English, only theFrench came anywhere near making good, by setdement or ex-ploration, their vast claims to territory in North America. Withthe French the English had to fight for the possession of theSt. Lawrence, the Ohio, and the Mississippi valleys. 81 82 The Establishment of the English 97. The earlyFrench ex-plorers The French were early in the field of Amer
An American history . lts of these ambitious plans were meager Swedes maintained their tiny posts on the Delaware Riverfor less than twenty years, and the Dutch held the banks of theHudson for about fifty years. Besides the English, only theFrench came anywhere near making good, by setdement or ex-ploration, their vast claims to territory in North America. Withthe French the English had to fight for the possession of theSt. Lawrence, the Ohio, and the Mississippi valleys. 81 82 The Establishment of the English 97. The earlyFrench ex-plorers The French were early in the field of American traditions tell of the discovery of distant western shoresby sailors of Dieppe more than a century before Columbussbirth. At any rate, the fishing vessels of the Norman and Bretonsea dogs were looming through the Newfoundland fogs soonafter Columbuss death ; and Verrazano had sailed the Atlanticcoast from Florida to Nova Scotia for the French king sixty 98. earlier onthe St. Law-rence, 1534-1535. Joliets Map (from Winsors Cartier to Frontenac) years before Sir Walter Raleigh opened the epoch of Englishsettlement in Virginia. A long list of French names representsettlements attempted in Brazil, Carolina, Newfoundland, andNova Scotia (Acadia) during the sixteenth century ; but the onlyreal discoverer among these French adventurers was JacquesCartier, of St. Malo in Brittany. In 1534 Cartier sailed into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, andon his next voyage (1535) discovered the broad mouth of theriver. He made his way up the St. Lawrence, stopping to barter The Struggle with France for North America 83 for furs at Indian villages on the magnificent sites where thecities of Quebec and Montreal now stand. Just beyond Mon-treal the way to the China Sea (the hope held out by everywestward-reaching river or creek) was barred by the rapidswhose name, Lachine ( China ), still tells of Cartiers disap-pointment in not reaching the East Indies. For several yearsCartier labo
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