The Spanish settlements within the present limits of the United States . th he came at last upona great river, three leagues wide at its mouth, and intowhich at flood tide the largest of French ships couldenter, which he named Port Royal, and sailing threeleagues up the stream, he anchored his vessels. Ribautthought it was the River Jordan and Parkman identifies See Appendix C, The Pillar Set up by Ribaut. ^ Lescarbot, Histoire de la Nouvelle France, Paris, i6ii, sec. v., p. 45 ;,Hist. Notable, Basanier, p. 10; Hak., vol. ii., p. 420; Gaffarel, p. 18. Andsee Appendix D, The Rivers between the
The Spanish settlements within the present limits of the United States . th he came at last upona great river, three leagues wide at its mouth, and intowhich at flood tide the largest of French ships couldenter, which he named Port Royal, and sailing threeleagues up the stream, he anchored his vessels. Ribautthought it was the River Jordan and Parkman identifies See Appendix C, The Pillar Set up by Ribaut. ^ Lescarbot, Histoire de la Nouvelle France, Paris, i6ii, sec. v., p. 45 ;,Hist. Notable, Basanier, p. 10; Hak., vol. ii., p. 420; Gaffarel, p. 18. Andsee Appendix D, The Rivers between the River of May and Port Royal. ^ The true and last discoverie, etc.; Hist. Col. Louisiana and Florida,pp. 174-175- ^Hist. Notable, Basanier, p. 11 ; Hak., vol. ii., p. 420. The true and last discoverie, Hist. Col. Louisiana and Florida,p. 185 ; Laudonniej-e in Hist. Notable, Basanier, pp. 12, r6 ; Hak., vol. ii.,pp. 421, 425, thought the Jordan was more to the north. CAPa E DES COSTESDELA FLORIDKFRANQOISE Eihellc lie Liiuo« communes do Frauio Jo a5 an l>c<;. MAP OF THE FRENCH FLORIDA COLONY OF 1562-65, BY NICOLAS BELLIN, IN HISTOIRE ET DE-SCRIPTION QENfRALE DE LA NOUVELLE FRANCE, PAR LE P. DE CHARLEVOIX, PARIS,1744. The First French Colony 35 it with the Broad River. Ribaut, who was soon on afriendly footing with the savages, explored for some dis-tance its lower affluents, erected another column to indi-cate that the country was a French possession, and finallygathering his people together, made them an address inwhich he recalled to their memory the importance totheir young King of the enterprise upon which they hadall embarked, and asked for volunteers to remain behindand hold Port Royal for their sovereign. Most of thesoldiers eagerly offered their services for the new these he selected twenty-eight,^ appointed as theircaptain a certain Albert or Aubert de la Pierria, and con-structed for them on a little creek, which he namedChenonceau, a house of logs
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