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in about lat. 26° N. In the longitude of the Bermudas he devi- 
ated to the northwest, and reached the coast somewhere near 
Cape Fear, making the traverse in 49 days. “ rig his landfall 
Verrazano sailed northward along our east ¢ exploring it in 
its aieled length as far as Nova Scotia or Necienidiand ” and 
=e papas to France by an already known route. 
he first traverse of the central parts of the Atlantic, from 
We to Florida. RiBauur, 1562.—‘ He determined to ‘follow 
a new ocean route, which had not been attempted yet. He tells 
us that he struck from France at once into the broad Atlantic, 
and followed a more or less western course, which is, as he says, 
“the true and short course that hereafter must be ‘kept to to the 
honor of the French nation, rejecting the old conserved opinion 
which so ee time has been believed true:” that for reaching 
orth America, south of Canada, it was necessary to 
-winds by way of Madeira and the — 
Islands. He however, unfortunately gives us no further detai 
about the direction-of his track. All that we learn about it is, 
setting out from Europe westward, he saw no other coast 
or islands on the way, and made his a ~ Sate 30° north 
latitude, near our present St. Augustine 
It is therefore very probable that he kopt ies course through 
the waters of the Pema and Bermudas. He may have _—. 
direction and latitude before Ribault.” 
7. Introduction of an ss age — _ beeerose of North 
Ailantic Navigation by the En _ ‘Ha L564-5.—“ Cap- 
West Indies. All pais deco to Amer- 
ica are connected with Jus voyages, and a host of English shi 
followed in ‘hree of his vo 
yages are especi 
scueavoriire: “The first was in 1562, on which “he went Ligyod 
the Canary islands, traversed the ocean, and skirted along the 
_ northeastern coasts of the West India pens bees —_ which he 
ae On 
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