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then betweene them, and the great desartes which they should of necessitie ouerpasse, made them leaue of theyr enterpryse: whiche if it had ben purposed by the coastes of this our North sea, it might haue been easily fynyshed. The sayde Ambassadour continued his narration, saying that no man ought to doubt of that sea, but that it may be sayled sixe monethes in the yeere, forasmuche as the dayes are then very long in that clime, and hot, by reason of continuall reuerbe- ration of the beames of the Sunne, and shorte nyghtes: And that this thing were as well woorthie to bee prooued, as anye other nauigation, whereby many partes of the worlde, heere- tofore vnknowen, haue been discouered and brought to ciuilitie.

Desartes.

The vyage by the North sea.

The woorthinesse of this vyage.

The vyages of the Frenchmen to the lande of Baccalaos.

Pleasaunt countreys.

New France.

Apostrophe to the Christian princes.

Great ryuers.

A thyng woorthy to be searched.

And heere makyug an ende of this talke, he sayde: Let vs now omyt this parte of Moscouia with his colde, and speake somewhat of that parte of the newe worlde, in whiche is the lande of Brytons, called Terra Britonum, and Bacca- leos, or Terra Baccalearum, where in the yeere 1534, and 1535, Jaques Cartiar, in two vyages made with three great French Gallies, founde the great and large countreys named Canada, Ochelaga, and Sanguenai: which reach from the xlv to the 51 degree, beyng well inhabited, and pleasaunt countreys, and named by him Noua Francia. And here stay- ing a while, and lyftyng vp his handes, he sayde: Oh what doe the Christian princes meane, that in suche landes dis- couered, they doe not assigne certayne colonies to inhabite the same, to bryng those people (whom God hath so blessed with naturall giftes) to better ciuilitie, and to embrace our religion, then the whiche nothing can bee more acceptable to God. The sayd regions also, beyng so fayre and fruitful, with plentie of all sortes of corne, hearbes, fruites, wood, fyshes, beastes, metals, and ryuers of suche greatnesse that shyppes may sayle more then 180 myles vpon one of them, beyng on both sydes infinitely inhabited: And to cause the gouernours of the savde colonies to searche whether that

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