Category: History - American
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;...
THE honor of projecting the first Swedish settlement in foreign parts is due to Willem Usselinx,—a native of Antwerp, who resided for several years in Spain, Portugal, and the A...
17. CHAPTER V.PURCHAS in his _Pilgrimage_ quaintly writes, that “the great river Canada hath, like an insatiable merchant, engrossed all these water commodities, so that other streames are in...
21. CHAPTER VII.COURCELLE was succeeded as governor of New France by a man of remarkable individuality, energy, and purpose. Louis de Buade, Count of Palluau and Frontenac, is beyond any doubt...
19. CHAPTER VI.AT the time of the discovery of this portion of the northern continent, the missionary spirit was active in the Catholic Church. The labors of the earlier monks had been revived...
23. CHAPTER VIII.SAYS Carlyle: “Those Dutch are a strong people. They raised their land out of a marsh, and went on for a long period of time breeding cows and making cheese, and might have gone...
12. CHAPTER I.JOHN CABOT discovered the continent of North America June 24, 1497; and his son Sebastian the next year coasted its shores for a considerable distance,—perhaps even, as some acc...
13. CHAPTER II.JACQUES CARTIER, the Breton sailor, sometimes styled “the Corsair,” was born at St. Malo, probably in 1491. He began to follow the sea at an early age, and soon attained to prom...
11. Part II.In their organic life the continents of America have always stood somewhat apart from those of the Old World. This isolation is marked in every stage of their geological history...
14. CHAPTER III.FROM 1603 to 1635 the ruling spirit and prominent figure in French exploration and colonization in America was Samuel de Champlain. His temperament and character, as well as his...
16. CHAPTER IV.ACADIA is the designation of a territory of uncertain and disputed extent. Though its sovereignty passed more than once from France to England, and from England to France, its l...
10. Part I.THE continents of the earth have two distinct types of form,—the one regular, symmetrical, triangular in outline; the other without these regularities of shape. To the first of...
20. Part I., is on “Les Récollets dans le pays des Hurons, 1646-1687.The account of the Réligieuses Ursulines of Canada in this Relation was repeated, with additions, in pp. 229-315 of _La Gloire de S. Ursule_, Valenciennes, 1656. Cf. Harrisse, p...
22. part iii.; but Raemdonck (p. 257) says he has never seen a copy of thatMercator’s maps were followed, however, pretty closely in Mathias Quad’s or Quadus’s _Geographisch Handtbuch_,[732] Cologne, 1600, which contained a map of the world and another...
15. iii. 16, had advanced the theory that the fort was on Lake Canandaigua:and to this view Mr. Parkman guardedly assented in his _Pioneers_, and so marked the fort on his map. Brodhead, _History of New York_, i. 69, and Clark in his _History of Ononda...
18. iii. 231, 232; but the English geographer, Herman Moll, in his mapsbetween 1710 and 1720, was under La Hontan’s influence. Another English cartographer, John Senex (1710), accepted the La Hontan story with considerable hesitation, and later rej...
7. CHAPTER VII.AUTOGRAPHS: Monseignat, 364; Frontenac, 364; William Phips, 364; John Walley, 364; Thomas Savage, 364; S. Davis, 364; Fitz-John Winthrop, 364; Philip Schuyler, 365; Ben. Fletche...
6. CHAPTER VI.AUTOGRAPHS: Trouvé, 266; Fremin, 268; Gabriel Druilletes, 270; Bailloquet, 270; Albanel, 271; Dalmas, 271; Buteux, 271; Bigot, 273; De Noue, 273; Sébastien Rale, 273; Belmont, 2...
5. CHAPTER V.ILLUSTRATIONS: Map of the Ottawa Route (1640-1650), 202; Dollier and Galinée’s Explorations, 203; Lakes and the Mississippi, 206; Joliet’s Map (1673-74), 208; Fac-simile of Joli...
2. CHAPTER II.ILLUSTRATIONS: The Nancy Globe, 81; Ulpius Globe (1542), 82; Maps of Rotz (1542), 83, 83; Cabot Mappemonde (1544), 84; Münster’s Map (1545), 84; Map of Medina (1545), 85; of Hen...
9. CHAPTER IX.AUTOGRAPHS: Willem Usselinx, 443; Gustavus Adolphus, 444; Axel Oxenstjerna, 444; S. Blommaert, 445; Peter Spiring, 445; Peter Minuit, 446; Clas Fleming, 447; Queen Christina, 44...
4. CHAPTER IV.ILLUSTRATIONS: Sieur de Monts, 136; Isle de Sainte Croix, 137; Buildings on the same, 139; Lescarbot’s Map of Port Royal, 140; Champlain’s Map of Port Royal, 141; Map of Gulf of...
8. CHAPTER VIII.1. CHAPTER I.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)...
3. CHAPTER III.ILLUSTRATIONS: Map of Port St. Louis, 109; of Tadoussac, 114; of Quebec (1613), 115; of the St. Lawrence River (1609), 117; View of Quebec, 118; Champlain, 119; Defeat of the Ir...