came in sight of the Florida Keys. Coasting thence northward 
to the mouth of the St. Johns river (Riviére Mai), he visited the 
little colony of Ribault there situated, then bore away with the ° 
ulf Stream to the northeast, and about a hee after arrived 
on the banks of N ewfoundland, and in three weeks more reached 
England. His third voyage ts Be) added: to the result of his 
second a more = taet noe oration of the Mexican Gulf. We 
re) 
; became the highway for ae lish trade and English conquest in, 
h< to, and from the New ie 
'8. First consultation in sn England about the question, if a southern 
or northern voyage to the central parts of the east coast of North 
America would be preferable, and first attempt of a northern route, 
GILBERT, 1583.—This attempt was made by Sir Humphrey Gil- 
rt. Commanding five vessels, he ordered them to try to make 
Cape Race, keeping as near as ‘possible se fs N. lat. ee - 
most unpropitious voyage he made land in 51° N. lat 
he coasted southerly as far as Sable aia: ve Isle of Sablon 
where . loss of his principal vessel obliged him to return. 
e first time that authentic history shows us a navi- 
sf gator sitar out on this now usual route from Europe for the 
coasts of our present United set with the pronounced convic- 
tion that it must Pathe: the best ro 
Routes of the “Braglish navigators to Old “Vir- 
ginia” or Ne From 1584-1602.—The disastrous 
et of Gilberts 3 expedition brought this route into bad odor 
with his and, this together with the more ae : 
and sacking Span- 
temporaries, an 
climate, the chance for taking Spanish prizes an 
ish settlements, induced all the early Virginia vi TS—suc. 
Ral 
voyage : 
eigh, Amadas, Barlow, Mace and others—to re a ara 
ern route, reaching the West Indies about Domi island, 
a | sailing thence along the whole chain of the eadeard islands, 
the Antilles and Bahamas, making the eo about Ca 
Fear, then ee Cape Hatteras to Roanoke. By some R 
ng current of the Gulf Stream was thought to offer an insu- 
perable Necalnag to the northern route. 
10. D a more direct route from England to the North 
parts of Virpints, ( ps Misia. GosnoLp, 1602.—Bartholomew 
- Gosnold, bearing in mind the voyage of Verrazano undertook a 
lirec : westerly route about the 40th degree of N. lat., to the 
shores of Virginia—the harbors of Ni ort and New York: 
and after an unfavorable passage made his landfall in 43° N. 
nse 
- SECOND SERIES, Vor. XXVI, No. 76.—JULY, 1858 
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oa of his journal (printed in 1602) lies in his soundings si the 
