Identifier: americafromdisco00boyd (find matches)
Title: America, from discovery in 1942 to the present time
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Boyd, James P(enny) (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Mansfield, Ohio, Estill & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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• Narvaez previously made a similar march to the River of Palms and on tothe Pacific. The story of his exploits is too wild for belief. The Spanish underGomez had also skirted the coast to New England, calling the country The Landof Gomez.
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COLONIAL BIRTH AND GROWTH. 7^ THE RIVAL CLAIMANTS.—Here then were three rivals,all claiming the same lands as discoverers. England claimed acontinent, or would have done so had she known it was a conti-nent. France in mapping her New France claimed from Dela-ware bay northward. Spain claimed for her Florida, or NewSpain, everything from the Gulf of Mexico to Newfoundland.What a chance for future troubles! But as yet these claimswere so misty and vague as not to be worth fighting about. In-deed they did not serve even as a bar to other claims on theground of discovery by these same nations or by others, espe-cially when a permanent settlement followed. Thus when Colignywanted (1562) to establish a Huguenot colony and found aProtestant French empire in America* he selected Florida as thesite, and calling it Carolina, after Charles IX. of France, gave ita limit extending from St. Augustine to Port Royal entrance.His first colony failed (1563). In 1565 he tried another whichbrought a st

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