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... explored for long distances from tide - water . By ascending the St. Lawrence and the chain of the Great Lakes , the interior of the continent is readily reached . Dragging his craft over any one of system . a half - dozen easy portages ...
... explored for long distances from tide - water . By ascending the St. Lawrence and the chain of the Great Lakes , the interior of the continent is readily reached . Dragging his craft over any one of system . a half - dozen easy portages ...
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... explored the American shores down to the vicin- ity of Chesapeake Bay . From this voyage sprang the claim under which the English colonies in North America were founded . Sebastian Cabot's voyage . Three years later ( 1501 ) a ...
... explored the American shores down to the vicin- ity of Chesapeake Bay . From this voyage sprang the claim under which the English colonies in North America were founded . Sebastian Cabot's voyage . Three years later ( 1501 ) a ...
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... explored the north- ern shore of the Gulf of Mexico . The following year ( 1520 ) a slave - hunting expedition , under Vas- Vasquez in South Caro- quez , visited the coast of South Carolina , lina . which the commander styled Chicora ...
... explored the north- ern shore of the Gulf of Mexico . The following year ( 1520 ) a slave - hunting expedition , under Vas- Vasquez in South Caro- quez , visited the coast of South Carolina , lina . which the commander styled Chicora ...
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... explored the upper valleys of the Rio Grande and Gila , ascended the Colorado for two hundred and forty miles above its mouth , and visited the Grand Cañon of the same river . Coronado at last returned , satisfied that he had been made ...
... explored the upper valleys of the Rio Grande and Gila , ascended the Colorado for two hundred and forty miles above its mouth , and visited the Grand Cañon of the same river . Coronado at last returned , satisfied that he had been made ...
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... explored the coast from about Wilmington , N. C. , to Newfound- land . Seven years later ( 1534 ) Jacques Cartier , a St. Malo seaman , sailed up the north shore of the estuary of the St. Lawrence " until land could be seen on either ...
... explored the coast from about Wilmington , N. C. , to Newfound- land . Seven years later ( 1534 ) Jacques Cartier , a St. Malo seaman , sailed up the north shore of the estuary of the St. Lawrence " until land could be seen on either ...
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Page 107 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both"!
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Page 156 - ... the United Colonies of New England. 2. The said United Colonies for themselves and their posterities do jointly and severally hereby enter into a firm and perpetual league of friendship and amity for offence and defence, mutual advice and succor upon all just occasions both for preserving and propagating the truth and liberties of the Gospel and for their own mutual safety and welfare.
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