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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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The History of North America: Discovery and exploration, by A. Brittain, in ...

Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe - 1903 - 658 pages
...this country New 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 sometimes was so called. There is no part of earth here to...
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Travellers and Explorers

1903 - 636 pages
...cliffs, which lie toward 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 be taken up, wherein there is not some probable show of gold or silver. At our departure hence...
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The History of North America, Volume 1

Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe - 1903 - 698 pages
...this country New 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 sometimes was so called. There is no part of earth here to...
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Discovery and Exploration

Alfred Brittain, George Edward Reed - 1903 - 638 pages
...this country New 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 sometimes was so called. There is no part of earth here to...
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The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of ..., Issue 11

Richard Hakluyt - 1904 - 524 pages
...PACK of San Francisco Bay and near Point de los Reyes, two important means of identification being ' the white bankes and clifFes which lie towards the sea,' and the gophers or pouched rats, ' a strange kind of conies, having under her chinne on either side a bag,...
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Hakluytus posthumus, Volume 15

Samuel Purchas - 1905 - 592 pages
...Nova Albion, and that for two causes : the one in respect of the white Bankes and Cliffes, which lye towards the Sea : and the other, because it might...have some affinitie with our Countrey in name, which sometimes was so called. There is no part of Earth here to be taken up, wherein there is not some probable...
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A History of the New California, Its Resources and People, Volume 1

Leigh Hadley Irvine - 1905 - 774 pages
...skinnes, for their King's coat was made out of them. Our General called this countrey Nova Albion, and that for two causes: the one in respect of the white bankes and cliffes which lie toward the sea; and the other because it might have some affinitie with our countrey in name, which...
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Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a ..., Issue 15

Samuel Purchas - 1905 - 584 pages
...Skinnes, for their Kings Coat was made of them. Our Generall called this Countrey Nova Albion, and that for two causes : the one in respect of the white Bankes and Cliffes, which lye towards the Sea : and the other, because it might have some affinitie with our Countrey in name,...
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American History Told by Contemporaries..., Volume 1

Albert Bushnell Hart - 1910 - 636 pages
...winde to enter the same [coast of California]. . . . Our Generall called this Countrey Noua Albion, and that for two causes : the one in respect of the white...towards the sea : and the other, because it might haue some affinitie with our Countrey in name, which sometime was so called. There is no part of earth...
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The Washington Historical Quarterly, Volume 14, Issue 2

1923 - 80 pages
...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 our Countrey...
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