| Title: | New England |
| Original Title: | Angleterre, la nouvelle |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 1 (1751), p. 465 |
| Author: | Denis Diderot (biography) |
| Translator: | Paula Humfrey [Laurentian University] |
| Subject terms: |
Geography
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| Citation (MLA): | Diderot, Denis. "New England." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Paula Humfrey. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2005. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0000.291>. Trans. of "Angleterre, la nouvelle," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 1. Paris, 1751. |
| Citation (Chicago): | Diderot, Denis. "New England." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Paula Humfrey. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0000.291 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Angleterre, la nouvelle," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 1:465 (Paris, 1751). |
New England, province of North America, near Canada and the Northern sea. lat. 41 - 45 .
John Verrazano, a Florentine, discovered it, and took possession for Francis I in 1524, and the English carried inhabitants there in 1607 and 1608. This first tentative effort was not a success; and it was not until 1621 that this country was called New England. They arrived with furs, beaver and moose, wooden masts, cheeses, flours, biscuits, grains, vegetables, salted meats, fish, fresh and dried cod, salted mackerel, hemp, linen, skins, embossed knives, and even amber. It was the Savages who supplied the pelts in exchange for lead, powder, and firearms.