



(Macplictsmi I'ollcttim,) 



FLORIDA DISCONERED RV FRENCH HUGUENOTS 



'lilt first Frruch selllenicnl in Florida was mcnie by Riband in 

 1500 hnt 7tias a failnrf, four years lalcr Laudonnicre made another 

 attempt with a party of Huguenots, but the settlement was wiped 

 out by the Spanish forces. The picture frnni De Bry apparenth 

 relates to the same place as that depicted as Fort Caroliiie by 

 Montanus in his book on " The New and Unknown World," 

 published nearly a century later. {.See illustration on p. 270.) 



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