An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . 164 BRITISH VILLAOB ON THE ST. LAWBBNCB. in North America were directed. The Cabots, Cortereal, and Ver-Rzzano, pursued their course, exclusively, either along them or theneighbouring part of the United States. The unsuccessful attemptof Mr. Hore and Sir Humphrey Gilbert, in 1536 and 1578, will benoticed in a subsequent chapter. Their want of success damped for
An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . 164 BRITISH VILLAOB ON THE ST. LAWBBNCB. in North America were directed. The Cabots, Cortereal, and Ver-Rzzano, pursued their course, exclusively, either along them or theneighbouring part of the United States. The unsuccessful attemptof Mr. Hore and Sir Humphrey Gilbert, in 1536 and 1578, will benoticed in a subsequent chapter. Their want of success damped for a while the spirit of enterpriseamong the English. Other nations, however, had long looked towardthe northern and middle shores of AmericaAvith greedy eyes. TheFrench, under Verazzano, as we have already seen, had sailed alongthe coast, now forming the boundary of the United States, from Flo-rida to New England ; and the Spanish were only prevented fromfollowing the same track, by their inordinate grasping after wealth,which invariably precluded any permanent friendly intercourse withthe natives. France resumed her efforts before the close of the six-teenth century. In 1603, a gentleman, named De Monts, obtainedfrom Henry IV. privi
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