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CHAPTER II.
THE DISCOVERY OF THE PACIFIC, AND THE EARLY EXPLORATION OF FLORIDA.
To atone for the
sudden check
in the progress of
discovery in the
North, mentioned in
our previous chapter,
we find the
Spanish vigorously
prosecuting their
explorations in the
Gulf of Mexico,
bent, like other nations,
on finding a
new passage to
India, though convinced
that it lay,
not among the
snow and ice of the
Arctic regions, but
in more southerly
latitudes.
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BALBOA DISCOVERING THE PACIFIC OCEAN.
Ignorant of the important fact, that the land barring their progress west-
