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NARRATIVE AND CRITICAL HISTORY OF AMERICA

French Explorations and Settlements in North America and Those of the Portuguese, Dutch, and Swedes 1500-1700

NARRATIVE AND CRITICAL HISTORY OF AMERICA

Edited by

JUSTIN WINSOR

Librarian of Harvard University Corresponding Secretary Massachusetts Historical Society

VOL. IV

Boston and New York Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge

Copyright, 1884, by James R. Osgood and Company. All rights reserved.

The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A. Printed by H. O. Houghton & Company.

CONTENTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

[_The French arms on the title are those used by the Royal Printing-Office in Paris in the Seventeenth Century._]

INTRODUCTION. PAGE PHYSIOGRAPHY OF NORTH AMERICA.
_Nathaniel S. Shaler_ i

CHAPTER I.

CORTEREAL, VERRAZANO, GOMEZ, THEVET. _George Dexter_ 1

ILLUSTRATION: Early Fishing Stages, 3.

CRITICAL ESSAY 12

ILLUSTRATION: The Verrazano map, 26.

AUTOGRAPHS: Francis I., 23; Janus Verrazanus, 25.

MAPS OF THE EASTERN COAST OF NORTH AMERICA, 1500-1535.
_The Editor_ 33

ILLUSTRATIONS: The Admiral’s map, 34; Portuguese Chart (1503),
35; Map of Lazaro Luis, 37; of Verrazano (1529), 37; of Ribero
(1529), 38; of Maiollo (1527), 39; of Agnese (1536), 40; of
Münster (1540), 41; Ulpius Globe (1542), 42; Carta Marina
(1548), 43; Lok’s Map (1582), 44; John White’s Map (1585), 45;
Map of North America (1532-1540), 46.