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Narrative and Critical History of America, Vol. 4 (of 8): French Explorations and Settlements in North America and Those of the Portuguese, Dutch, and Swedes 1500-1700 — John Shaqi

Narrative and Critical History of America, Vol. 4 (of 8): French Explorations and Settlements in North America and Those of the Portuguese, Dutch, and Swedes 1500-1700

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Narrative and Critical History of America, Vol. 4 (of 8): French Explorations and Settlements in North America and Those of the Portuguese, Dutch, and Swedes 1500-1700

America -- Discovery and exploration; America -- History; United States -- History

ILLUSTRATIONS: Early View of Quebec, 320; Canadian on Snow
  Shoes, 331; Plan of Attack on Quebec (1690), 354.

  AUTOGRAPHS: Louis XIV., 323; Frontenac, 326; Duchesneau, 334;
  Seignelay, 337; Le Fèbre de la Barre, 337; De Meules, 337; De
  Denonville, 343; Champigny, 346; Engelran, 348.

  CRITICAL ESSAY                                                     356

  EDITORIAL NOTES                                                    361

  ILLUSTRATIONS: Quebec Medal, 361; Plan of Attack on Quebec
  (1690), 362, 363; Canadian Soldier, 365.

  AUTOGRAPHS: Monseignat, 364; Frontenac, 364; William Phips,
  364; John Walley, 364; Thomas Savage, 364; S. Davis, 364;
  Fitz-John Winthrop, 364; Philip Schuyler, 365; Ben. Fletcher,
  365; De Courtemanche, 365; Colbert, 366.

  GENERAL ATLASES AND CHARTS OF THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH
  CENTURIES. _The Editor_                                            369

  ILLUSTRATIONS: Title of Wytfliet’s Atlas, 370; Gerard Mercator,
  371; Abraham Ortelius, 372; Mercator’s Mappemonde (1569), 373.

  AUTOGRAPHS: Gerardus Mercator, 371; Abraham Ortelius, 372.

  MAPS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY SHOWING CANADA. _The Editor_       377

  ILLUSTRATIONS: Map of Molineaux (1600), 377; of Botero (1603),
  378; Lescarbot’s Newfoundland (1609), 379; Map by Champlain
  (1612), 380, 381; (1613), 382; by Jacobsz (1621), 383; by
  Briggs (1625), 383; by Speed (1626), 384; by De Laet, 384; by
  Jannson, 385; by Visscher, 385; by Champlain (1632), 386, 387;
  by Dudley (1647), 388; by Creuxius (1660), 389; by Covens and
  Mortier, 390; by Gottfried (1655), 390; by Sanson (1656), 391;
  by Blaeu (1662), 391; in Ogilby’s America (1670), 392, 393; in
  Campanius (1702), 394.


  CHAPTER VIII.

  NEW NETHERLAND, OR THE DUTCH IN NORTH AMERICA.
      _Berthold Fernow_                                              395

  AUTOGRAPHS: Peter Minuet, 398; Julian Van Rensselaer, 400; W.
  van Twiller, 401; P. Stuyvesant, 406; A. Colve, 409.

  CRITICAL ESSAY                                                     409

  ILLUSTRATIONS: Ribero’s Map (1529), 413; Dutch Vessels (1618),
  415; The Figurative Map (1616), 433; De Laet’s Map (1630), 436;
  Visscher’s Map, 438; Van der Donck’s Map (1656), 438.

  AUTOGRAPHS: Johan De Laet, 417; Adrian Van der Donck, 419;
  Johannes Megapolensis, 420; Isaac Jogues, 421; Cornelis Melyn,
  425.

  EDITORIAL NOTES                                                    439

  ILLUSTRATION: Map of New York and Vicinity (1666), 440.

  AUTOGRAPHS: Everhard Bogardus, 441; Willem Kieft, 441.


  CHAPTER IX.

  NEW SWEDEN, OR THE SWEDES ON THE DELAWARE. _Gregory B. Keen_       443

  ILLUSTRATIONS: Visscher’s Map (1651), 467; Trinity Fort, 473;
  Siege of Christina Fort, 480; Lindström’s Map (1654-55), 481;
  Map of Atlantic Colonies (_Campanius_), 485.

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Narrative and Critical History of America, Vol. 4 (of 8): French Explorations and Settlements in North America and Those of the Portuguese, Dutch, and Swedes 1500-1700

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