The history and antiquities of Boston .. . se appears to have been keptup between Europe and Cartier performed a greatservice by these voyages. He ledthe way into the heart of Norum-bega, by ascending the St. Law-rence to Hochelaga, to which hegave the name of Montreal. Hespent the Avinter of 1535-6 inCanada, and returned to France inthe spring. He returned again,and spent another winter in Can-ada, in the service of Robervalwho had made vast outlays to es-tablish a colony in New France ;but the severe winters and theprovoked Indians had probablynot a very inconsiderable effect i
The history and antiquities of Boston .. . se appears to have been keptup between Europe and Cartier performed a greatservice by these voyages. He ledthe way into the heart of Norum-bega, by ascending the St. Law-rence to Hochelaga, to which hegave the name of Montreal. Hespent the Avinter of 1535-6 inCanada, and returned to France inthe spring. He returned again,and spent another winter in Can-ada, in the service of Robervalwho had made vast outlays to es-tablish a colony in New France ;but the severe winters and theprovoked Indians had probablynot a very inconsiderable effect in bringing to an end the hopes andlofty projects of a nobleman of the mild and sunny fields of France. Indeed, proof is abundant that, from near the time of Cabots voyage,numerous vessels were upon the coast of New England continually. In1527, an English captain found, in the harbor of St. John, Newfound-land, eleven sail of Normans, one Breton, and two Portuguese, engagedin the In 1585, Queen Elizabeth sent some of her ships of. JAMES CARTIER. responds with the map in Ramusio (vol. iii., , edit. 1565), where Nurumbega appears tocomprise the southern portion of that district,from Long Island Sound to the Bay of Fundy.— /. Winter Jones in Works of Hak. Soc. * On Dr. Peter Heylyns exceeding rude mapof America, dated 1656, Norumbega is thefirst name north of Cape Cod ; but whether in-tended for the Massachusetts Bay, or the coun-try from this cape to the Bay of Fundy, thereis nothing to certify. But in his Mikrokosmos,before cited, he describes Nurumbega, as hav-ing on the north Nova Francia, on the southVirginia. . The chiefe towne is called Norum-bega, and is possessed by the French. p. is a Mappe of the World in a copyofBoterus Relations of the WorZrf, 1630, in myI, on which New France extends north from the parallel of 40°. north lati-tude, to New England, which extends southfrom 50° north; and Virginia extends from40° north latitude to the penins
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