Circulation of the news of Verrazzano’s remarkable discoveries. Fernando Carli’s letter to his father. The adverse opinion of the people concerning Verrazzano’s undertaking. The navigator regarded as another Amerigo Vespucci, another Magellan. Three ships equipped to sail to the Indies under the command of Verrazzano. His third voyage to the New Land. The indomitable Florentine falls a victim to savage cruelty. His body roasted and eaten. Ramusio’s worthy tribute. The navigator’s great parchment map. The Maiollo map. Hieronymus da Verrazzano’s chart 335-343 CHAPTER XI. (_Addenda._) The French again search for a direct water-route to India. Voyages of Jacques Cartier. The names given to the natives of the New Land. The peasants of New France. The Hudson explored in the sixteenth century. The French name for the Palisades. The country of the Grand Scarp. Manants Island. A small fort built by the French on the site of New York City. The château on Castle Island, near the site of Albany. The structure damaged by a freshet. The Mohawk Indians show the ruins to the Dutch explorers of the river in the seventeenth century. The Hollanders call it Fort Nassau. The opinion of the Dutch inhabitants of Albany respecting the people who built it 344-363 Index 365-380 COPIES OF RARE MAPS. I.—Delineation of the hyperborean regions by Sigurd Stephanius in 1570 22 II.—A part of the map of the New World contained in the edition of Ptolemy’s geography printed in Strasburg in 1513 124 III.—A part of the Cabot-map of 1544, in the Bibliothèque nationale, Paris 190 IV.—Map of the New World contained in Peter Martyr’s “Legatio Babylonica,” printed in 1511 220 V.—A tracing representing the limits of the discoveries of Juan Ponce de Leon and Francisco de Garay. 1521 278 VI.—A part of the map of the fourth part of the world contained in the Cosmographie Universelle by André Thevet, printed in Paris in 1575 304 VII.—Map of Terre de la Franciscane in the cosmography of Jean Alphonse and Raulin Secalart, 1545 354 VIII.—Map of a part of North America made by Giacomo de Gastaldi in 1553 356 IX.—A part of the map of the world made by Gerard Mercator in Duisburg in 1569 360