Sieur De Monts Commission De Monts And Acadia An Appreciation
Sieur De Monts Commission De Monts And Acadia An Appreciation
George B George Bucknam Dorr
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But wdiether the race instinct of colonization was taking a rest, or because of the absorb- ing interest in the mythical "northwest passage to Cathay, " she made no effort to follow up the discoveries of the Cabots in 1497 by acts evincing intention of per- manent possession. But it was with express purpose of proceeding to 6 actual oeeiipancy tliat France sent out two great ex- ploring- expeditions wliicli were not only tlioroiigh-going in character bnt pregnant of consequences : tliat of Ver-... razano in 1524, wliicli gave tlie name New France to tliese North Atlantic shores, and that of Jacques Cartier ten years later, whose reniarkal)le observations and glowing accounts deepened this nominal interest into tlie sense and pride of ownership. France now asserted her sole right to all the region north of Spanish Florida. Portugal, also, laid early claim to the vast, unbounded region north of the Newfoundland waters, which she named Corterealis after her great discoverer in the year 1500; the name Labrador preserves a record of her passing hand.
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