DISCOVERY

OF. Danish, | task egian, and Icelandic manuscripts! appl that Scand in avian navigators! dry i: <d and explored portions of the | caro and of North America as early as the ja tra century, and that a settlement of | cusp } existed in Green land in 1266. | dry ty years later Icelandic mi ionaries | over i Newfoundland. These facts were { hast: yen to Christopher Columbus and | notic yntemporaries, and to the Genoese } lectu is ascribed the honour of the dis- | shoe y of the ‘* New World.” Aided by | ship., be set out in 1492 to find a sea-route vine, East Indies. Ho first sighted! A) og Island, and afterwards discovered | 8 m alvador, Hayti, Cuba, and other West | the J n Islands, a name given to the group | The olurnbus from his mupposing fl fe in the neighbourhood of India. On| Roel md voyage he visited Jamaica, and | west third Mecovere Trinidad, and sur- | a ra | a portion of the northern coast of | Syst. America, Other intrepid explorers | the _ westward. In 1497 an English | from. commanded by Giovanni Cabot and | Mex yn Sebastian, Venetians settled in 1** th il, explored a portion of the coast of | pars; America, and a year later Sebastian | mer, d Newfoundland. The first to} lead wh an account of the discoveries was | Moe igo Vespucci, and the land, of which | gras as supposed to be the discoverer, | are to be called by his namo. The first | the ment on the mainland was made by | fow, on the Peninsula of Florida, 1512. | Hud jpaniards were also first in conquest. | Atls © was subdued by Cortez, and Peru by | Gra: ro. When these conquests became | Few o, Francis I. of France sent out an/ The ition which surveyed more than/ Beb: miles of the coast of North America, T Jacques Carticr sailed up the S&. | shee a ees site of ——— Mac, Mage diana Port ese, en € | basc c Coast by ealticig trough the Strait | Lak | bears his name. More than two/| drai ries elapsed before nioaats # a Dane | Mic! ninand of a Ru ian expedition sent | the) y Peter the Great in 1728, by sailing | Salt ech Behring’s Strait, proved the A ation of America from Asia; while | prog pistence of a ‘* North West-Paasage ” | cons en the Atlantic and Pacific Oceana, | emi; mnly definitely sottled by Sir Rodert | prov ure in 1850. part [s. 42]