Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 15)2. Juan de Agramonte, commissioned by Queen Juana of Castile, to explore to the Northwest, with two Breton pilots. 1524. Giovanni di Verrazano, in the employ of Francis the First, after an unsuccessful attempt in 1522, leaves Madeira January 17th with one vessel, sights the New Jersey coast of the United States, and explores these shores from lat. 39 deg. to 44 deg., and reaches Dieppe July 4th. 1525. Estevan Gomes, a Portuguese in Spanish employ, leaves Corunna with one vessel, traces the American coast from North to South, from lat. 44 to 34, and reaches Corunna in December, bringing home a number of the natives. 1526. Nicolas Don (D'aunis ?), a Breton fisherman, is driven by gales Southwest from Cape Breton, and believing that he has discovered new coasts, offers to explore them for the Emperor. 1527. John Rut, with Albert de Prato as pilot and cosmographer, leaves the Thames, May 20th, with two vessels, the Mary of Guilford and the Samson, to search for a strait westward. The Samson is lost in June, and her consort puts into St. Johns, Newfoundland, where they found Norman, Breton and Portuguese fishing vessels, and then coasted to Florida, visited Hispaniola and Porto Rico, reaching home in October. III.—EXPLORATIONS OF THE ATLANTIC COAST OF FLORIDA, FROM THE SOUTH, 1510-1526. 1510 or before. Terra or Isla de Bimini (Bahama or perhaps Florida) discovered. 1513. Juan Ponce de Leon, with the pilot Alaminos, discovers the mainland of Florida, coasting its gulf shore to lat. 24 deg., and the Atlantic shore to near lat. 30 deg. On his return he has to stem the Gulf Stream, gets entangled among the Bahamas, and finds the pilot Diego Miruelo the elder exploring them. 1520. The Licentiate Lucas Vasquez de Ayllon, one of the Auditors of Hispaniola, sends two...