Irving's Columbus-Parkman's Pioneers of France Jesuits in North America, and Discovery of the Great West--Longfellow's Sir Humphrey Gilbert (Poem)--De Vere's Romance of American History--Abbott's Biography of Illustrious Men and Women--T. Irving's De Soto in Florida--Help's Spanish Conquest of America-Biddle's Sebastian Cabot--Nicholls's John Cabot--Barlow's Vision of Columbus (Poem) and Poems on Columbus by Samuel Rogers and F R Lowell-Simms's Damsel of Danen (Poem)--Scibner's Monthly, Nov 1874 art, Pictures from Florida--Harper's Magazine, Nov etc 1874, art The first Century of the Republic--Prescott's Ferdinand and Isabella (Columbus)--Hawk's History of North Carolina (Lost Colony of Roanoke)--Shea's Discovery and Exploration of the Mississippi Valley--Wallace's Fair God (Fiction)--Barnes's Popular History of United States [Illustration: THE OLD GATEWAY AT ST. AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA] EPOCH II. DEVELOPMENT OF THE ENGLISH COLONIES. * * * * * From 1607--the Founding of Jamestown, To 1775--the Breaking out of the Revolution. This Epoch traces the early history of the thirteen colonies--Virginia, Massachusetts, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, North Carolina, New York, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Georgia. The Cavaliers land in Virginia, and the Puritans in Massachusetts. Immigration increases and the settlements multiply along the whole coast. The colonies, however, still have little history in common. Each by itself struggles with the wilderness, contends with the Indian, and develops the principles of liberty. [Footnote: _Questions on the Geography of the Second Epoch_.--Names of places in italic letters may be found on the map for Epoch III. Locate Jamestown. Salem. _Charlestown_. Boston. _Cambridge_. Swanzea. Providence. Bristol. Hadley. Hatfield. Portsmouth. Dover. Hartford. Wethersfield. New Haven. Windsor. Saybrook. New York. Albany. Schenectady. Elizabethtown. Wilminton. Philadelphia. St. Mary's. Edenton. Charleston. Savannah. Haverhill. Deerfield. St. Augustine. Quebec. Louisburg. Locate Fort Venango. Oswego. Presque Isle. Fort Le Boeuf. Crown Point. Fort Ticonderoga. Fort Niagara. Fort du Quesne. Fort William Henry. Fort Edward. Describe the Ohio River. Monongahela River. French Creek. Chowan River. Ashley River, Cooper River. River St. John. Potomac River. James River. Hudson River. Connecticut River. Mohawk River. Delaware River. Kennebec River. Penobscot River. _Mystic River_. Miami River. St. Lawrence River. Locate Manhattan Island. Alleghany Mountains. Cape Breton. Massachusetts Bay. _Albemarle Sound_. Chesapeake Bay.] VIRGINIA.