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 *nificent sheet of water flowing into the sea on the other. Instead of the stately vessels and trim little gun-boats which now guard the approach to the capital of the Metropolis, Indian canoes were shooting here and there on the sunlighted waters, their rowers pausing again and again to look at the strange intruder from the South.

Verrazano remained at anchor off the mouth of the Hudson for about fifteen days, receiving visits on board from the natives—a kindly, cheerful race, with regular features, clear complexions. long, straight hair, and good figures. Then steering up the shores of New England for some forty or fifty leagues, he came to the harbor of Nova Scotia, where he would gladly have rested awhile, but finding his provisions failing him, and the Indians meeting his advances with coldness and suspicion, he turned the Dauphine's head eastward-ho, arriving at Dieppe after an absence of only six months.

JACQUES CARTIER.

More important was the work done by Verrazano's successor, Jacques Cartier, of St. Malo, who, at the instigation of Admiral Chabot, was sent out in April, 1534, with two ships of about 130 men, by Francis I., with orders