Nova Albion, and that for two causes; the one in respect of the white banks and cliffs, which lie towards the sea, and the other, because it might have some affinity with our country in name, which sometime was so called. The History of North America - Page 437edited by - 1903Full view - About this book
| Francis Whiting Halsey - 1912 - 250 pages
...oft-time forgate to prouide meate for their owne sustenance. . . . This country our Generall named Albion, and that for two causes; the one in respect of the white bancks and cliffes, which lie toward the sea; the other, that it might haue some affinity, euen in... | |
| Joseph Smeaton Chase - 1913 - 392 pages
...memorable circumnavigation ; and this is the shore where brave Drake landed, and "called this country Nova Albion, and that for two causes; the one in respect...have some affinity with our country in name, which sometime was so called." The scene was not specially striking in itself, and I thought it all the better... | |
| Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas - 1915 - 282 pages
...Drake, on his voyage round the world, landed on the Californian coast: he " called this country Nova Albion, and that for two causes, the one in respect...have some affinity with our country in name, which sometime was so called." At his departure he " set up a monument of our being there ; as also of Her... | |
| Philip Frederick Alexander - 1916 - 262 pages
...account of their skins, for their king's coat was made of them. Our General called this country Nova Albion, and that for two causes : the one in respect...have some affinity with our country in name, which sometime was so called. There is no part of earth here to be taken up, wherein there is not some probable... | |
| Albert Bushnell Hart - 1916 - 376 pages
...better acquainted with the nature and commodities of the country. . . . This country our Generall named Albion, and that for two causes ; the one in respect of the white bancks and cliffes, which lie toward the sea; the other, that it might have some affinity, even in... | |
| William Henry Koebel - 1917 - 682 pages
...Albio so christened by Drake for two reasons : "The one in respect of the white bankes and cliff es, which lie towards the sea: and the other, because it might have some affinitie with our Coontrey in name, which sometime was so called." To a student of Drake the importance... | |
| American Antiquarian Society - 1919 - 388 pages
...fit harborough In this bay we ankered the seventeenth of June, Our Generall called this country Nova Albion and that for two causes; the one in respect of the white banks and cliffes which ly towards the sea th other that it might haue some affinite euen in name also with our... | |
| Arthur Pierre Poley - 1921 - 410 pages
...dignity of the country into his hands, but for the use of the Queen, and in the name of the Queen, and "for two causes, the one in respect of the white banks...have some affinity with our country in name, which some time was so-called," he named the land "Nova Albion." The bay wherein this landing took place... | |
| John Brown, James Boyd - 1922 - 658 pages
...Elizabeth. He named it New Albion "for two causes ; the one in respect of the white bankes and cliffes which lie towards the sea; and the other because it might have some affinitie with our own country in name which sometimes was so called." After the necessary repairs... | |
| Edmond Stephen Meany - 1923 - 380 pages
...figure under the name of Sir Francis Drake. The record says: "Our Generall called this countrey Nova Albion, and that for two causes : the one in respect of the white bankes and cliffs, which ly towardes the sea, and the other, because it might have some affinitie with... | |
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