. A history of the United States. lshad explored and the places where each had obtained a foothold. Important Dates: 1604. Beginning of a French colony at St. Croix. 1607. Settlement of EngUsh at Jamestown. 1608. Champlain founds a French colony at Beginning of English settlement of New Dutch settlement at New Amsterdam. CHAPTER III EXPLORING THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY The Appalachian Barrier. — The more venturesome menof the early settlements in America were anxious to explorethe country westward. A map-maker nearly fifty years after James-town was founded said that the
. A history of the United States. lshad explored and the places where each had obtained a foothold. Important Dates: 1604. Beginning of a French colony at St. Croix. 1607. Settlement of EngUsh at Jamestown. 1608. Champlain founds a French colony at Beginning of English settlement of New Dutch settlement at New Amsterdam. CHAPTER III EXPLORING THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY The Appalachian Barrier. — The more venturesome menof the early settlements in America were anxious to explorethe country westward. A map-maker nearly fifty years after James-town was founded said that theSea of China and the Indies wasonly ten days march from the headof the James River. AsColumbus had found abarrier continent in hisattempt to reach Asia, sothe settlers found amountain barrier in theirway. To understandtheir task it is necessaryto see what sort ofan obstacle thisbarrier offered. Jamestown wasbuilt upon thecoastal plain, whichrises only a fewfeet above sea-level. Back of thecoastal plain, some-times as far as 150. TheGreatMoun-tainBarrier BACK OFTHE EnglishSettle-ments Note how far northand south this mountainbarrier extends, makingit difficult for the earlysettlers to move far tothe west. 28 EXPLORING THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY miles, is a broken country, like New England in appearance,called the Piedmont,^ and still farther back, a range ofmountains. This range, the Appalachian Mountains, pre-sented for 1,300 miles an almost unbroken wall to the advanceof explorers or settlers. Nature of the Barrier. — The Appalachians do not forma single barrier, but a system of barriers. Their easternridges fall away into low hills in eastern Pennsylvania, thehighlands of New Jersey, and the palisades of the Maryland, Virginia, and farther south, they form a moun-tain range, called the Blue Ridge. West of these ridges, orof the hills which prolong them, Hes the Appalachian Valley,also full of ridges difficult to cross. Still farther west risesthe steep slope of the
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