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" 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 Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English ... - Page 111
by Richard Hakluyt - 1904
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History of the State of Washington

Edmond Stephen Meany - 1909 - 544 pages
...told in the quaint narrative of the time : — "Our Generall called this countrey, Nova Albion, and that for two causes : the one in respect of the white bankes and cliff es, which ly towards the sea : and the other, because it might have some affinitie with our Countrey...
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History of the State of Washington

Edmond Stephen Meany - 1909 - 536 pages
...told in the quaint narrative of the time : — "Our Generall called this countrey, Nova Albion, and that for two causes : the one in respect of the white bankes and cliff es, which ly towards the sea : and the other, because it might have some affinitie• with our...
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Voyages of Drake & Gilbert: Select Narratives from the "Principal ...

Richard Hakluyt - 1909 - 234 pages
...this country 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. There is no part of earth here to...
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Voyages and Travels: Ancient and Modern

1910 - 412 pages
...Albion, and that for two causes; the one in respect of the » Mole. TO XXXIII (8) 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. There is no part of earth here to...
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A History of California and an Extended History of Los Angeles and ..., Volume 1

James Miller Guinn - 1915 - 498 pages
...possession of the country in the name of the English sovereign, Queen Elizabeth. He named it New Albion, "for two causes: the one in respect of the white bankes and cliffes which ly towardes the sea; and the other because it might have some affinitie with our own country in name...
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The British Empire: Six Lectures

Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas - 1915 - 282 pages
...this country 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." At his departure he " set up a monument...
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The Earliest Voyages Round the World, 1519-1617

Philip Frederick Alexander - 1916 - 262 pages
...this country 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. There is no part of earth here to...
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British Exploits in South America: A History of British Activities in ...

William Henry Koebel - 1917 - 672 pages
...land would seem to be well to the south of that Nova Albio so christened by Drake for two reasons : "The one in respect of the white bankes and cliffes,...our Countrey in name, which sometime was so called." To a student of Drake the importance of this discovery is not to be overestimated. "It thus appears,"...
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British Exploits in South America: A History of British Activities 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...our Countrey in name, which sometime was so called." To a student of Drake the importance of this discovery is not to be overestimated. "It thus appears,"...
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British Exploits in South America: A History of British Activities 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 of this discovery...
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