Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Nova Scotia” in entry america-discoverers-of of Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History:

...s claimed for Giovanni da Verrazano, a Florentine navigator, that he sailed from France with four ships, in 1524, on a voyage of discovery, and that he traversed the shores of America from Florida to Nova Scotia . He is supposed to have entered Delaware Bay and the harbors of New York. Newport, and Boston, and named the country he had discovered New France. Jacques Cartier discovered the gulf and river ...
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Nova Scotia (Canada) 230 81 2 1 0 user votes

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