A pictorial description of the United States; embracing the history, geographical position, agricultural and mineral resources .. . New or Alta California was discov-ered about 1542, by Juan RodriguezCabrillo, who explored the coast as farnorth as the forty-third degree of northlatitude. Portions of the coast werevisited by Sir Francis Drake in 1578,by Francisco Galli in 1582, and bySebastian Vescayna in 1603. Vescaynadiscovered the ports of San Diego andMonterey, and closed the career of north-ern exploration which had originatedwith Cortez. In 1767, the Jesuits, bywhom the settlement of Lowe
A pictorial description of the United States; embracing the history, geographical position, agricultural and mineral resources .. . New or Alta California was discov-ered about 1542, by Juan RodriguezCabrillo, who explored the coast as farnorth as the forty-third degree of northlatitude. Portions of the coast werevisited by Sir Francis Drake in 1578,by Francisco Galli in 1582, and bySebastian Vescayna in 1603. Vescaynadiscovered the ports of San Diego andMonterey, and closed the career of north-ern exploration which had originatedwith Cortez. In 1767, the Jesuits, bywhom the settlement of Lower Califor-nia had been accomplished, fell underthe displeasure of the government ofSpain, and were expelled from the pen-insula. The Marquis de Croix, who was at that time viceroy of New Spain, re-placed them by the rival (jrder of the Franciscans, upon whom he strongly urgedthe spiritual conquest of the upper province. This enterprise the governmentconsidered more important than the settlement of the peninsula. The accountswhich were current of the wealth of the country were very flattering, and politicalreasons induced them
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