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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 Imperial Commonwealth: A Survey of Commercial, Industrial, and Social ...

Arthur Pierre Poley - 1921 - 410 pages
...and in the name of the Queen, and "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 some time was so-called," he named the land "Nova Albion."...
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History of San Bernardino and Riverside Counties: With Selected Biography of ...

John Brown, James Boyd - 1922 - 658 pages
...accepted the gift and took formal possession of it in the name of Queen Elizabeth. He named it New Albion "for two causes ; the one in respect of the white...other because it might have some affinitie with our own country in name which sometimes was so called." After the necessary repairs to the ship were made,...
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Spanish and Indian Place Names of California: Their Meaning and Their Romance

Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez - 1922 - 504 pages
...good harborow, with a good wind to enter the same. Our General called this country Nova Albion, and that for two causes; — the one in respect of the white bankes and cliff es, which ly toward the sea; and the other that it might have some affinity with our country...
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Origin of Washington Geographic Names

Edmond Stephen Meany - 1923 - 380 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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Sir Francis Drake's Voyage Around the World: Its Aims and Achievements

Henry Raup Wagner - 1926 - 612 pages
...coate was made of them. Our Generall called this Countrey, 276 >ff The Famous Voyage NOUA ALBION, and that for two causes: the one in respect of the white...lie towards the sea: and the other, because it might haue some affmitie with our Countrey in name, which sometime was so called. There is no part of earth...
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A Selection of the Principal Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the ...

Richard Hakluyt - 1927 - 328 pages
...skinr.es, for their Kings coate 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 lie towards the sea : 156 and the other, because it might have some affinitie with our Countrey in name, which sometime...
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Buccaneers of the Pacific

George Wycherley - 1928 - 536 pages
...now named this new land "New Albion" fdr two reasons: "the firste, in respect to the white banckes and cliffes which lie towards the sea, and the other because it might have affinitie with our country in name, which sometime was so called. . . . "When the time came for our...
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American History Told by Contemporaries, Volume 1

Albert Bushnell Hart, John Gould Curtis - 1897 - 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

1923 - 348 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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Early American Writing

Various - 1994 - 676 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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