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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 15: (search)
nearly a century before, had named Claudia. After exploring both channels of the island, which owes to him the name of Roode Eiland, now Rhode Island, the mariner from Holland imposed the names of places in his native land on groups in the Atlantic, which, years before, Gosnold and other English navigators had visited. The Unrest sailed beyond Cape Cod, and while John Smith was making maps of the bays and coasts of Maine and Massachusetts, Adriaen Block traced the shore as far at least as Nahant. Then leaving the American-built yacht at Cape Cod, to be used by Cornelis Hendricksen in the fur-trade, Block sailed in Christiaensen's ship for Holland. The States General, in an Assembly where Olden Barneveldt was present, readily granted to the united Chap. XV.} 1614. company of merchants interested in these discoveries, a three years monopoly of trade with the territory between Virginia and New France, from forty to forty Brodhead's Colon'l Documents, 110. five degrees of latitud