Chapter XI: (Addenda.)

The French again search for a direct water-route to India.
Voyages of Jacques Cartier. The names given to the natives of
the New Land. The peasants of New France. The Hudson explored
in the sixteenth century. The French name for the Palisades.
The country of the Grand Scarp. Manants Island. A small fort
built by the French on the site of New York City. The château
on Castle Island, near the site of Albany. The structure
damaged by a freshet. The Mohawk Indians show the ruins to
the Dutch explorers of the river in the seventeenth century.
The Hollanders call it Fort Nassau. The opinion of the Dutch
inhabitants of Albany respecting the people who built it 344-363

Index 365-380

COPIES OF RARE MAPS.

I.—Delineation of the hyperborean regions by Sigurd Stephanius
in 1570 22

II.—A part of the map of the New World contained in the edition of
Ptolemy’s geography printed in Strasburg in 1513 124

III.—A part of the Cabot-map of 1544, in the Bibliothèque nationale,
Paris 190

IV.—Map of the New World contained in Peter Martyr’s “Legatio
Babylonica,” printed in 1511 220

V.—A tracing representing the limits of the discoveries of Juan
Ponce de Leon and Francisco de Garay. 1521 278

VI.—A part of the map of the fourth part of the world contained
in the Cosmographie Universelle by André Thevet, printed in
Paris in 1575 304

VII.—Map of Terre de la Franciscane in the cosmography of Jean
Alphonse and Raulin Secalart, 1545 354

VIII.—Map of a part of North America made by Giacomo de Gastaldi
in 1553 356

IX.—A part of the map of the world made by Gerard Mercator in
Duisburg in 1569 360

X.—A part of the map of the world made by Juan de la Cosa in
1500 cover-pocket

XI.—A part of the map of the world made by Johann Ruysch,
contained in the edition of Ptolemy’s geography printed in
Rome in 1508 cover-pocket

XII.—A part of the map of the world made by Visconte de Maiollo
in 1527 cover-pocket

DISCOVERIES OF AMERICA.