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Title: A popular history of the United States of America, from the aboriginal times to the present day
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Cincinnati, Philadelphia (etc.) Jones brothers & company San Francisco, A. L. Bancroft & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation
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VOYAGE AND DISCOVERY. 77 sailor from his boyhood, and was now a wealthy merchant of Bristol.The autumn and winter were spent in preparations for the voyage;five substantial ships were fitted, crews were enlisted, and everythingmade ready for the opening of the spring. In April the fleet left Bris-tol; and on the morning of the 24th of June, at a point about themiddle of the eastern coast of Labrador, the gloomy shore was seen.This was the real discovery of the American continent. Fourteenmonths elapsed before Columbus reached the coast of Guiana, and morethan two years before Ojeda and Vespucci came in sight of the mainland of South America. Cabot explored the shore-line of the country which he had dis-covered for several hundred miles. He supposed that the land was apart of the dominions of the Cham of Tartary; but finding no inhabitants,he went on shore, according to the terms of his commission, planted theflag of England, and took possession in the name of the English king.No man f