A pictorial school history of the United States; to which are added the Declaration of independence, and the Constitution of the United States . river did he discover? 90. When did he discover theMississippi ? 91. How long did he wander in the wilderness? 92. What finally be-came of him? 93. What was done by his followers after his death? XVII. 94. Wliat exploration was made seventeen years beftjre De Soto discov-ered the Mississippi? 95. What name (Md Verrazani give to the region which heexplored ? 96. To what territory was that name afterward restricted ? 9T. Howlong did Canada retain the na
A pictorial school history of the United States; to which are added the Declaration of independence, and the Constitution of the United States . river did he discover? 90. When did he discover theMississippi ? 91. How long did he wander in the wilderness? 92. What finally be-came of him? 93. What was done by his followers after his death? XVII. 94. Wliat exploration was made seventeen years beftjre De Soto discov-ered the Mississippi? 95. What name (Md Verrazani give to the region which heexplored ? 96. To what territory was that name afterward restricted ? 9T. Howlong did Canada retain the name of New France? XVIII. 9S. When, after the exploration made by Verrazani, did the Frenchmake other exjilorations? 99. Who commanded the expeditions? 100. Howmany voyages did he make in 15:34 and 15:?5? 101. Through what strait did hesail? (See map, p. 10.) 102. In what 3-eardid he discover the St. Lawrence? (Seemap, p. 10.) 103. When was Qnebec settled? 104. By whom was it settled? 105i»Iow is Quebec situated ? (See map, p. 10.) DISCOVERIES AND EXPLORATIONS. 19 settlement until one was made on the site of Quebec, in 1608,by XIX. Quebec is not, however, the oldest French settle-ment in America, as Port Royal, now Annapolis, in NovaScotia [sco-she-ah), was settled three years before by DeMonts [du-mou(/), a wealthy Huguenot. Port Royal wasthen spoken of as being in Acadia, a name which, at the time,was applied to the whole territory now included in NovtvScotia, New Brunswick, and the adjacent islands. XX. More than forty years before the settlement of PortRoyal, in Nova Scotia, the Huguenots, or French Protestants,undertook to establish a colony—first in South Carolina andafterwards in Florida—as a place of refuge for their expeditions were undertaken by direction and aid ofJaspar Coligny* {ho-leen-ye)^ Admiral of France. The first,intrusted to the command of John Ribault [re-bo), reached the * Colipny, or, as thedered at Paris, in ;. is some
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