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CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

Water-color facsimile after the painting by an unknown artist, now in the Museo Naval at Madrid.

THE HISTORY OF

NORTH AMERICA

VOLUME I

DISCOVERY
AND
EXPLORATION

BY

ALFRED BRITTAIN

Author of The Spanish Conquest of Mexico; Ocean Voyages in the
Fifteenth Century; The Exploration of Northern America; Trans-
portation in the Civil War, etc., etc.

IN CONFERENCE WITH

GEORGE EDWARD REED, LL. D., S.T. D.

PRESIDENT OF DICKINSON COLLEGE

SOMETIME LIBRARIAN OF THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA, ETC., ETC.

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COPYRIGHT, 1903, BY GEORGE BARRIE & SONS

Entered at Stationers' Hall, London.

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MINNESOTA

DEDICATED

TO THE

AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION

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