Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the more than 300 original illustrations. See 51291-h.htm or 51291-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/51291/51291-h/51291-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/51291/51291-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See http://www.archive.org/details/narrcrithistory04winsrich Transcriber’s note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Text enclosed by equal signs is in bold face (=bold=). A carat character is used to denote superscription. A single character following the carat is superscripted (example: mag^t). Multiple superscripted characters are enclosed by curly brackets (example: Mess^{rs}). NARRATIVE AND CRITICAL HISTORY OF AMERICA French Explorations and Settlements in North America and Those of the Portuguese, Dutch, and Swedes 1500-1700 [Illustration] NARRATIVE AND CRITICAL HISTORY OF AMERICA Edited by JUSTIN WINSOR Librarian of Harvard University Corresponding Secretary Massachusetts Historical Society VOL. IV Boston and New York Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge Copyright, 1884, by James R. Osgood and Company. All rights reserved. The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A. Printed by H. O. Houghton & Company. CONTENTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS. [_The French arms on the title are those used by the Royal Printing-Office in Paris in the Seventeenth Century._] INTRODUCTION. PAGE PHYSIOGRAPHY OF NORTH AMERICA. _Nathaniel S. Shaler_ i CHAPTER I. CORTEREAL, VERRAZANO, GOMEZ, THEVET. _George Dexter_ 1 ILLUSTRATION: Early Fishing Stages, 3. CRITICAL ESSAY 12 ILLUSTRATION: The Verrazano map, 26. AUTOGRAPHS: Francis I., 23; Janus Verrazanus, 25. MAPS OF THE EASTERN COAST OF NORTH AMERICA, 1500-1535. _The Editor_ 33 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; John White’s Map (1585), 45; Map of North America (1532-1540), 46. CHAPTER II. JACQUES CARTIER AND HIS SUCCESSORS. _Benjamin F. De Costa_ 47 ILLUSTRATION: Jacques Cartier, 48. AUTOGRAPHS: Jacques Cartier, 48; Henri the Dauphin, 56. CRITICAL ESSAY 62 ILLUSTRATIONS: Maps of Allefonsce, 74, 75, 76, 77; of Des Liens (1566), 78.