The Whole and True Discouerye of Terra Florida by Jean Ribault
as well to the ende they might be made great
over this pooer people and rude nation, as also
tapprove the former affection which our Kinges
have had to this discover [ie] : for the late King
Francis [the first] of happie memorye, a prynce
endued with excellent vermes, anno 1524, sent
a famyous and notable man, a Florentyne, named
Messire Jehan de Verrazane* to searche and
discover the west partes as farre as might be, who
departyng from Depe with two vesselles, litle
differing from the making and burden of these
two pynnases of the Kinges, which your grace
hath ordained for this present navegation, in the
which lande he arrived where he founde the ele-
vation of the pole of 38 degrees, f the cuntery,
as he writeth, goodly, frutefull, and of so good
a temperaunce as is not possible to have better,
being then as yet of no man seen, nor discov-
ered. || But he being not able at his first voiage
to bring to passe that [whiche] he had intended,
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* P., Varran. Verrazano’s Relation is in Hakluyt, Divers Voy-
ages, pp. 55-7L
f P., an viij degrees, which is unintelligible.
|| P., discerned.
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