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Title: A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878 Gay, Sydney Howard, 1814-1888
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Publisher: New York : Scribner, Armstrong, and Company
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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had discov-ered, seems to have gone unpunished and almost unnoticed by thegovernment at home. While the course of Spanish adventure was thus, in the earlieryears of the sixteenth century, directed towards Central America,leading, in due season, to such events as the discovery of the Pacific,the conquests of Peru and Mexico, and the exploration of the westerncoast of the present United States, it was not forgotten that theremight be other regions further north on the Atlantic coast worth pos-sessing. Juan Ponce de Leon, who had enriched himself by the sub-jugation of Porto Rico, resolved, when deprived of the governorshipof that island, to increase his fame and his riches by some new enter-prise. He had heard that there were lands at the north, of whichmarvellous tales were told, not only of great wealth of gold and prec-ious stones, but that hidden away somewhere in the deep recesses of 1 Peter Martyr. 2 i^(fg of Pizarro, by Arthur Helps, p. 55. ^ Herrera, Decade I., book x., chap, I.
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SEARCH FOR THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH. 1512.) PONCE DE LEON DISCOVERS FLORIDA. 147

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